Racism. Are you sure?

I have a friend from Jamaica, whose father is Chinese, and his mother is primarily Black. He says too that he has German and Irish in him. I call him "UN on feet" he doesn't get bent outta shape about it and takes it all in stride.
On a more serious note, QS said in another post that he's not racist, and I'll take his word for it, however we all have prejudices we must ask God to help us with...sometimes we "pre-judge" others, AKA prejudice, in different ways, i.e. Blacks are great Basketball players; Asians are good at math, Irish are drunks, etc. Sometimes we have prejudices about geography..i.e. if you are from New York City, "Oh, you are from Southern California", or "Oh, you are from the South, you hate Blacks,you are a redneck", etc. of course we could go on and on. I grew up in Kentucky and now live in NYC, boy am I mixed up!

 

Fortyish/Bald/Unemployed/Caucazoid/American

 

Pastor Kevin,

LOL

I am a dumb (Polish) drunk (Irish) American...LOL. I also have some English and Welsh in me.

Oh well, I am simply proud to be an American. I just wish that America was American.

 

I don't disagree with you. But the term as far as used here was in regards to identifying a person's race, and whether a person is racist if he'she identifies a person as "black male" "African American male", etc.

 

I've always been offended when asked if I am white on so many forms, especially government forms. If we are supposed to not be racial, why do they need to know? I think many racial problems would dwindle away if we would just call ourselves Americans.

Do you suppose they use this to keep from offending the illegal immigrants? They really can't say they're American, but they may be the first to jump up and call themselves just that!

Somebody read your post QS, now they're onto JohnV and his Muppet referral

 

Missing from this discussion is the fact that there is only one race - the human race. There are many cultures. There are certain features predominant in certain parts of the world. People have different amounts of pigments which account for different skin colors. But, there is only one race. Every man, woman, or child that has ever lived, has origins in Adam and Eve through Noah.

 

Every single person... still uses the understanding that there is a Caucasian ‘race,’ that there is an Asian ‘race,’ that there is an African ‘race,’ and an indigenous ‘race.’ Well, I’m here to tell you... that there’s only one race, and that’s the human race. Period.

Edward James Olmos, spoken during the commencement ceremony at National University, Sunday, May 12, 2002 in San Diego, California

 

I don't have a problem with my white friends. I don't have a problem with my black friends. I don't have a problem with my Indian, hispanic, and Latin American friends.

I have a problem with those freakin' blanks on any forms I have to fill out that ask me what my race is. I never know what to mark. My daddy is Filipino. My mama is white. I am a half breed. But they have no lines for a half breed.

 

My favorite favorite line in a movie is in Lean on me.

The black principal, laying in jail, his job done, was told he had to send the kids home.

He spoke--"I don't have to do anything but be black and die."

You go, girl

 

Take this alongside the disabled issue. A person who is disabled or deformed really doesn't have a chance in this world, except for a few. Those born with a disease or disability will suffer discrimination to it's fullest extent. If they aren't mistreated, they face being ignored, always made to feel different. How is this dealt with? Give them a parking space close to the door, or some money from the government. This is a people that will never be accepted for who they are, nor given full credit for who they could be. These are the ones who are being discriminated against, and they don't have to have a racial profile.

 

Recognizing that we are all of one race is not political correctness. It's biblical correctness.

One's skin color does not determine race. Were that so, to many southerners, I'd be black. But for Southern California, I'm rather fair.

What do cloning and interracial unions have to do with each other? Nothing, from what I can tell.

Cloning produces a copy of the parent, without regard to that parent's ethnicity. I think you're consufing cloning with genetic engineering.

"Ugly" and "not ugly" is extremely subjective. I prefer women with long dark hair. It's simply more attractive to me. Some men prefer blondes. A friend of mine is especially attracted to petite Asian women. I prefer women closer to my height. What I find attractive or ugly someone else will not.

 

You and I are of the same race. The decline-to-state race.

 

Hmm well if everyone is going by nationality and skin color I guess I could say I'm an English/Irish/Cherokee Indian/Caucasion American. But I'd just assume to be called a child of God. I'm a citizen of Heaven.
I don't care what color a person is, or what contry they came from. I don't care if you argue over three races or one.
The most important thing is we all have an eternal soul. Some are lost, some are saved.
You can't measure a persons worth by color, gender, age, appearance or anything.
We are not just statistics for a census, or faces in a crowd. We are precious beloved souls that Christ loved so much He went to Calvary.
God loved us and died for us, despite our many mixtures in heratige. God died for the white, the black, the asian, the oriental, the latino the whatever mixture of culture and heratige that you are. Christ died for you, and everyone else.
That's what's important. We can argue this on and on, but I still say there are two "races", if you will. Saved, and lost. It's up to us to lead others to the Lord so they will become citizens of the greatest contry of all...Heaven.
Miss Abby
Proverbs 31:30 KJB

 

Here in Hawaii I am known as a Haole...usually not used in a complimentary manner