Why do we call each other blacks–code for slave–and whites–code for master? When we move forward in eliminating the divisive race card in the United States, we will see less battles. What most people forget is–American Africans, same as American Indians, have been persecuted for centuries.
Dear Ones,
Even on application forms one is required to check the "race box"–now optional, a sign of progress. But history has taught us that human race wasn't started until the 1799s by two men separating humanity into divisive color boxes–Linnaeus and Blumenbach, what influenced Nazi Germany (in contrast to good Germany) to claim the Aryan culture superior, that in turn provoked the inhumane Holocaust (Shoa).
Ever since the Civil War and its aftermath of Jim Crow behavior to crush the freed people out of fear of retaliation and fear of jobs (what increased hatred) taken by them in the North, these disfranchised people had no power. Just in recent years they have gained more clout. And they're not going to take it any more. They've earned the power to stand up and shout out for freedom of speech and gestures, ever since they've been oppressed and suppressed for eons of time.
I'm so glad people are holding up their hands, as we all should. This is the main thing I've been working for, writing and marching fo–downtrodden human beings. When all the hands are up, what do we see? All human palms are one hue, shadowed from the sun–the savior of us all. "
Don't listen to radical cops and authoritarians trying to keep human hands down. The more we show our palms and the soles of our feet the more we observe we are all the same, more or less. We are all one, physically and emotionally. When radicals try to squelch human speech and feelings, they are the culprits,
Forget white on white and black on black crime. This mentality is juvenile in a nation still wet behind its ears compared to ancient cultures of the world. Crime is a crime no matter how much pigment or melanin we have in our DNA. Dark skin comes from our ancestors living thousands of years in one place–either near the equator or far away. And what exposed parts of our ancestors' bodies never saw the sun? It's their palms and feet!
For thousands of years Earth was covered by glaciers where no visible life could live. It wasn't until the end of the ice age that icebergs receded, what enabled human beings to migrate away from the Equator, what determines the variations in our diverse complexions.
So–why has the world persecuted people with more protective pigment in their skin than others? Is is jealousy or is it hatred for "black people"–a very derogatory term. Black means negative. "White people," is also derogatory–a negative term since it means "fearful coward." So why not identify, if necessary, by nationalities. (first islanders were transported to sea islands as slaves) It seems easier to oppose "black people" than hating an entire continent, what would be absurd and embarrassing.
So let's all grow up and stop hating one another, what provokes wars and young people's deaths of sacrifice. From wars come deadly toxic munitions causing gross deformities in babies, especially those of soldiers handling the illegal lethal ammo, according to International Law.
Do we continue to target American Africans since their ancestors used to walk the white sandy beaches and bathe in the beautiful rays of the sun–what non-Africans do intentionally to get their handsome tans?
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com founder of ERASE BLACK-WHITE LABELING (EBWL), funded by the author, historian, investigative journalist
