Posted on 09/25/2016 6:49:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s often said, “There is only one race – the human race.” While the phrase has become almost cliché in repetition, it happens to be 100 percent accurate, both scientifically and theologically speaking.
From Ferguson to Baltimore, Tulsa to Charlotte – and on college campuses from coast-to-coast – a great divide is sweeping America. It is fueled largely, if not entirely, by half-truths and outright lies. Truth is irrelevant. Only the narrative matters. When “Hands Up Don’t Shoot™” can do so very much to further “the cause,” it matters not that it represents a holocaust-denial-level of detachment from reality.
Which tells you everything you need to know about the cause.
This is by design. These embers of racial division are purposely fanned to a red-hot flame by certain political leaders, “social justice” warriors and “community organizers” (cut principally from the same ideological cloth) in order to permanently ingrain a turbulent level of cultural division based solely upon the varying shades of people’s skin. This, in turn, is intended to provoke widespread governmental dependency and, thus, one-party political control in perpetuity.
Yet, even at its core the idea of racial division, of race itself, is a myth. To sub-divide humanity based upon nothing more than varying levels of skin pigmentation is to rely upon the weakest of genetic markers.
And “race” really does signify nothing more than skin color.
Science dispels the myth of ‘race’
In aFeb. 5 Scientific Americanarticle titled, “Race is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue,” journalist Megan Gannon writes, “Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. And yet, you might still open a study on genetics in a major scientific journal and find categories like ‘white’ and ‘black’ being used as biological variables.”
“In an article published today (Feb. 4) in the journal Science,” continues Gannon, “four scholars say racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out.”
“It’s a concept we think is too crude to provide useful information, it’s a concept that has social meaning that interferes in the scientific understanding of human genetic diversity, and it’s a concept that we are not the first to call upon moving away from,” notes Michael Yudell, professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Under the latest genetic research, race is “understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity and an imprecise proxy for the relationship between ancestry and genetics,” he adds.
While not directly involved with the research, Dr. Svante Pääbo, a biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, agrees wholeheartedly with its findings. “What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded.”
Still, as the researchers likewise note, “Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races have had obvious social and historical repercussions.” Indeed, there are those on both extremes of the political spectrum with a vested interest in making sure these social and historical repercussions remain as inflamed and catastrophic as possible.
“Race” is a divisive means to a selfish political end.
It is not a scientific reality.
God’s final word on ‘race’
We love labels. We love to pit people against one another and lump them into neat, fixed little categories of put-upons, most often based upon outward appearances: black vs. white; Hispanic vs. Asian; tall vs. short; skinny vs. fat; old vs. young; abled vs. disabled, and so on.
Yet these divisions are artificial. They’re man-made. Every human being is created by a holy God, in His image and likeness, and imbued by Him with infinite worth and import. There is only one true and transcendent physical division, and that division was both created and intended by God to become reconciled (as one flesh) through the holy bonds of marriage – this, to propagate the human race: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis1:27).
Male and female. The XY and the XX. Immutable distinctions with a beautiful and bountiful difference. That’s it. All other physical divisions, especially racial divisions, remain artificial.
Our bodies, you see, are merely outward shells. As the great Scottish author and theologian George MacDonald once wrote, “Never tell a child ‘you have a soul.’ Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.”
We are souls. We have a body – an outward shell or “earth suit” as one of my favorite professors used to say. Why on God’s earth are we so deceived to believe that we must separate ourselves and hate one another based upon superficial, almost cosmetic outward appearances?
“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them” (Romans16:17).
To be sure, Christ Jesus alone can dissolve these divisions. “For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him” (Romans10:12).
These are not financial riches, but riches of love, life Spirit and salvation.
As a man with an Italian wife, a black sister-in-law, a Filipino uncle and biologically related half Filipino cousins, a step-grandmother who illegally immigrated from Mexico, biologically related half Mexican aunts and uncles, and dozens of foster brothers and sisters from across the globe, I have learned firsthand throughout my life that “race” is truly meaningless – it’s less than skin deep.
Until we learn this as a nation, we will remain a nation divided.
Yes, love is the answer. “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John13:34).
There is no political fix to this problem.
It’s a spiritual problem, requiring a spiritual fix.
And His name is Jesus.
Neanderthals have always been portrayed as slow and dim witted, not surprisingly since they are not around to defend themselves or counter the argument, but they had much larger brain cases than even modern homo sapiens. The fact is that those groups that interbred with them have made many more technological advances and developed more modern cultures and societies.
Perhaps Neanderthals were the victims of genocide by the "refugees" that came later.
I work with some of them, they occupy most the management slots.
They also were around a lot longer & survived under much more hostile conditions then the humans who came later.
Celebrate your Neanderthal genes!
Bring back the Cavemen TV series!
I loved that show!
The scientific fact is: Sub Saharan Africans are the only race which does not have Neanderthal DNA.
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If this is true, it certainly is interesting information that I have never before heard. If you could direct me to more information on this I would very much appreciate it.
Platitudes don’t solve shit
But you enjoy yourself
This is like a cattle car thread
I’ll counter the full culture war on whites and western civilization waged by non whites and progressives by claiming there is no such thing as race or to be precise race defined distinctions despite observing precisely that all around me
That is the path of the human dodo bird
Soon to be extinct
The problem IS we are not out MARCHING THE STREETS because of acts like this WHITE peoples,e being SLAUGHTERED by FERAL citizens!!
Neanderthals, owing to their body make up, required 5000 cal per day to maintain.
This is a much higher requirement then for modern man.
With the advent of the ice age, Neanderthals could not compete effectively for the calories that they needed.
This kind of Pollyanna crap doesn’t fit well right now considering we and our traditions are literally under assault
The whole of humanity can be defined by dinstinctiveness based all manner of characteristics including color
And one can even further define based on even more particular characteristics like ethnicity or creed
Jews always pop up and indeed they are quite distinct and it sure can’t all be explained away by good parenting
Extremely subtle DNA COUNTS FOR A HELLUVA LOT
Now race relativists will argue with exceptions like 12 year olds argue with their parents
“But wardaddy what about Ben Carson”
This Sean Hannity schtick
He and Beck was too
Explaining we are all the same and toss in MLK was groovy
This is pure evil
I see that you're still calling for this.
How would you go about making it happen?
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
My opinion on all of this is contained in my tagline.
“Neanderthals, owing to their body make up, required 5000 cal per day to maintain.”
I don’t buy the body make up bit. There was a show on TV that I watched which was very interesting, it was about the old time loggers who cut forests with axes and two man saws, these were the men who gave rise to the legend of Paul Bunyan. Interestingly it was said that the average logger of that time was around five seven or eight and weighed around one hundred and fifty five pounds. They were said to have consumed an average of around seven thousand calories daily, that is considerably more than your figure for the Neanderthal who were to my knowledge heavier boned than modern man. I have spent many long days cutting wood with an axe and pulling one end of a two man saw in my teen years so I have some knowledge of the subject. Anyone doing really hard work is going to need to consume three to five or maybe even more times as many calories as someone who works at a desk and does little else. Five thousand calories for one day is NOT a huge amount for someone doing real physical work. Neanderthals may not have worked as hard as loggers but I am sure they did not have a physically easy life.
Live Long and Prosper.
“I see that you’re still calling for this.”
Did I miss some event that suggested I should re-evaluate this?
BTW, I say what I say not with any animosity toward any people of any race, in fact I’m saddened at the tragedy of the situation. I say it with the same sense as seeing two married people who are totally incompatible and constantly fighting, where it’s neither party fault - they are simply incompatible. So why keep the misery going?
“How would you go about making it happen?”
The first step to solving any problem is to define the problem correctly and to acknowledge it. Unfortunately we as a nation are not even at this first step. Though there are starting to be some signs of awareness. On the black side, the nation of islam has long been for separation. On the white side, the Alt-Right is also suggesting peaceful separation.
If we ever get to that point I’m sure there will be people much smarter than me that will suggest solutions that can be evaluated. Some suggestions are in “The Bell Curve”.
The next step to solving a problem is having the will to want to solve it. It will take an incredible amount of collective will to solve this one. Will sometimes arises out of a problem getting so bad that it can no longer be ignored or rationalized away.
I don’t know how far we are from that point, but we’re definitely heading toward it.
Earlier in our history, there was an effort at separation with the creation of Liberia. And, as I pointed out, even Lincoln was in favor of separation. After the civil war all traces of that will not only disappeared, but was rendered anathema. Still is to a great extent.
I have a couple questions for you.
What do you think is the reason that there is so much friction (to put it kindly) between blacks and whites, as a whole, most everywhere in the world?
How would you go about ensuring peaceful coexistence between the two groups?
OMG what a crock of shit!
Jeez. What a cop-out.
And separatism to boot?
A "better solution"?
This is America. We'll work on American solutions to society's woes, thank you very much— solutions based on Freedom, Opportunity, and Unity— not Divisiveness.
To Hell with a balkanized America, we'll create a peaceful society the right way, not by embracing DIS-unity...
“To Hell with a balkanized America, we’ll create a peaceful society the right way, not by embracing DIS-unity”
Be sure to let me know when you do that. It’s been now almost 400 years since the first black slave was brought to America, and blacks and whites are still not peacefully coexisting, in fact race relations are worsening. Blacks are constantly complaining and rioting about how badly they’re being treated by whites. And the more they do, the more whites resent them.
You know any country in the world with a significant population of both blacks and whites that get along well? (Say like whites and chinese do here in the US)
By the way, I’m not embracing DIS-unity. I’m embracing reality, something that your delusional pollyannish mind is incapable of grasping.
Oh, and I’m not talking about balkanizing America - it already is. I’m talking about each group having its own separate country to do as they please. Why would you want to deny blacks their self determination and force them to live under white rule?
Speaking of the Balkans, have you noticed how peaceful things are now that each ethnic group has it’s own country? Or do you think they should go back and follow your idiotic “Unity” slogan?
I find it interesting to hear an increasing number of attacks on the idea of "colorblindness" from people who call themselves progressives.
Liberia? Separate but equal?
No. It will NEVER happen, K?
Try it somewhere besides America, because it will NEVER happen here...
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