Earthlings, Our Race is Human Race
Loren Broyles,
Spokane, WA.
We all have our own path and yet we all want to be happy and avoid suffering.
Not overcooked or underdone. Just right.
Lei-Anna Bertelsen,
Bozeman, MT.
I’ve grappled with this question all my life. My dad told me a story when I was a second grader after a boy called me names based on my skin color. My dad explained that when God made people, it took three tries to bake us to just the right color. When I was younger, I felt much more defensive when asked, ‘Where are you from?’ because it evoked in me the insecurity of ‘Where do I belong?’ But at my age and in today’s world, I choose to believe Its really a seeking question of ‘How are we connected.’ And I can feel confident in knowing we all belong as citizens of Earth to the human race.
Blacks opress themselves and blame whites.
Amanda,
Virginia Beach, VA
I was never one to think of myself as racist. Over the last several years I have watched the black community take over the media with their violent riots they call protests. I have heard their complaints about being shot by white officers just for being black…not for pulling a weapon on an officer or disobeying orders given by white AND black law enforcement. I have heard them cry about being oppressed. I have heard them argue that they don’t have equal opportunity and this is why they continue to fail as a community in general. I have also heard educated non-racist blacks talk about the embarrassment they feel because of the actions of the general assembly of their race. Here is my thought….I am of Native American decent, I am also “white”. I am a single mom, I had my son at 17, I have NEVER received any type of welfare, I have never held less than two jobs. I have raised my son on my own. I am currently working a full-time job, a part-time job, AND am attending college full-time with an anticipated grad. date next fall. I have a ton of student loans and was told when I applied for financial aid that if I were to claim my Native American heritage I would get more free money for school. I was told that if I were black and had more than one child, I would go to school for free. So PLEASE!!!! I BEG YOU to tell me how you are oppressed by the American System! I will continue to work and pay taxes to supply your food, housing, and healthcare costs while you continue to sit on your ass and pop out babies to increase your welfare benefits. I think it’s time to wake up and stop blaming the system or whites for your oppression….you oppress yourself and are STILL to pathetic to take responsibility. I don’t run around claiming that I’m oppressed because my ancestors went though horrible massacres and were stripped of their land. BY THE WAY…if you know black history then you will know that YOUR own race SOLD EACHOTHER! I would be willing to bet that while all these people are throwing around the race card 90% of them could not pass an exam on Black History! There is no United White College Fund…there are so many opportunities given to blacks in America that we have created a mindset of entitlement. It’s the black community’s responsibility to start educating their children instead of corrupting their young minds. Set them up for success and stop embarrassing your race…most of all STOP EMBARRASSSING THE HUMAN RACE!
Can Mutt be a human race? .
Ashley Boggs,
Wildomar, CA
That is me.
I think of us as all human, that is our race. Spread love.
Acknowledge the human race’s African origin
Ted Fink,
Rhinebeck, NY
As a kid growing up in the 1950’s, my Grandpa wouldn’t let me play with the black kid who lived next door because he was…black. But in school, I was taught to love my neighbors as myself and the lessons helped me to see his command as wrong at a very early age. My travels to six continents and meeting people of every color have only confirmed how wrong he was.
Only one race. Unified human race.
Mit,
Topeka, KS
Hope your project will work to unify us all rather than separate as we all have common human needs. Thanks for the opportunity to provide input.
Sometimes I’m ashamed to be white.
Doug Fraser,
Roundup, MT
What right do white people have to feel superior to any other race, since we have caused so much trouble for other races throughout history. Why can’t everyone see that we are all part of the same race, it’s called the human race!
America’s Dominant Race is HUMAN Race
Sarah Sanchez,
Midvale, UT.
I am Hispanic, black and European but you couldn’t tell by looking at me and I am okay with that. I believe that there may always be a larger number of a particular race through out America but that does not make them the majority nor minority. I I feel that no matter what color you are or where you came from we are all brothers and sisters of the Human Race.
We are all of the human race.
Tommy Edward Sarmiento,
Columbus, OH.
Don’t wash anything, with color, with darkness nor with white light. All human beings have a right to express and interpret and grow within themselves ideas; ideas of love, of what we fear, what makes us think “isn’t that strange?” Freedom and equity should belong to each human. We should love unconditionally. There’s only one problem, we just don’t. Somewhere along the lines we learned another way, we learned of hatred and of inequalities and have done things that no amount of time nor reparations a can ever erase. Perhaps it’s best not to erase, seeing as though that which is not recorded and passed down cannot be learned from. There’s too much to lose from erasing racism and the unfairness and brutal actions of the past. We can only forgive and grow to achieve harmony as a human race.
I belong to the human race!
Jamey Fitzpatrick,
Grand Ledge, MI.
My parents taught me to respect and celebrate all people of the world.
Losing faith in the human race
Peggy Miller,
Los Altos, CA.
Humans are destroying our planet and I have completely lost all faith.
My child is of human race
Ngan Lam,
Virginia Beach, VA.
I learned race, prejudice, racism, stereotype, and developed my own personal biases, but when I look at my child I only see a precious human being and spirit…just him and forget about all that I learned.
A Forgotten Race: The Human Race
Danielle Dollinger
Menlo Park, CA
People often struggle to identify themselves with a certain race. Whether it is African American, Chinese, Russian, Native American, White, Brazilian, etc. While searching for an identity within a certain race we are unable, however, to remember perhaps the most important race of all, one in which all humans belong to, the human race. The definition of the word race is: a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct groups based upon anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, or social association. Race is a word that is used to separate humans from one another, and categorize them based on what they are. The word race is a social construct because it encourages society to define us based on a label, and restricts us from defining ourselves. Although it is very important to embrace your ancestry and culture, our race does not define who we are; it only defines where we come from, not where we are going. The definition of the word human race is: all of the living human inhabitants of the Earth. On the contrary, the human race unifies humans and categorizes them based on who they are. It identifies humans with each other based on the mere fact that they are human and unlike race, within the human race, no human can be excluded. The human race allows us to make our own paths, and live free of the constraints of a label, in which we are basically born with and have no control over. The only label we are given is human which is what each human being on this Earth has in common.
We are all spirits of human race.
Katarzyna Smirnov,
Longmont, CO.
Yes, to expound I am tired of people misusing race or interchanging it with ethnicity. There is not one single genetic marker that distinguishes one ethnicity from another. The only time the color of ones skin should matter if they go missing or you are painting them in which case you’ll see that humans are just various shades of brown. Love for yourself isn’t skin deep, love your spirit and be a spirit not a ghost.
