Race sees race. Love sees love.
Naette Lee,
Philadelphia, PA.
The nature of humans is that what we see is what matters. What we see has little to do with what is, or what is important. Maybe one day that will change.
In nature, only humans fight differences.
Trealavon Grier,
Harrisburg, PA.
As a dark skinned African American, I have only experienced racist rejection from others that look like me. Self hatred, unfortunately, is real. Now in my 40’s, I realized how much of my life was wastep on other people’s issues. This was the beginning of self love and the fulfillment of my true destiny; to glorify my God in the skin that I am in by loving it first!
Race doesn’t matter; What’s inside does.
R.E.A.L. Talk,
High Tech Middle Media Arts,
7th Grade Trailblazer
Lots of people have asked me if I was Filipino. I’ve always had the same reply, ”I am a Jamaican and Chinese mix”. After encountering people who asked me such questions, I wondered why it mattered what race I was. I have read books where characters were judged based on their race, such as the book, “Waiting for Anya”. In this book, the Nazi soldiers have come to Jo’s village to patrol the borders. Everyone thinks that these soldiers are bad and mean because the soldiers that came before had been rude and intrusive. They judged the soldiers based on their appearance instead of what’s on the inside. When people actually start to accept the soldiers they realize that not all Nazis are bad and that these Nazis certainly aren’t. Books like these teach kids that race doesn’t matter; what’s inside does. When will people start to accept that race doesn’t exist, humans only think it does?
Nature Didn’t Create Race: Humans Did.
Race isn’t real; we make it real. People should start to accept others for what’s on the inside and not the outside. According to a study by Charles Darwin, all humans are all the same species and are 99.5% the same. Among the family heirlooms that Charles Darwin inherited, symbolically speaking, was a china cameo depicting a black slave in chains, asking “Am I not a man and a brother?” This proves that people have falsely made race real. Why does this matter? Because, we the people need to understand that we are all equal no matter the race or religion. An opposing view may be that we aren’t equal and that only one race is superior. Again, Charles Darwin’s phrase that “all humans are all the same species and are 99.5% the same,” confirms my point. Does that other .5% really matter? In Theory, people should learn to welcome the inner-self instead of the outer-self, because nobody is more important than another.
Science isn’t convinced race even exists.
Ann Sz,
Aurora, IL.
Check out the realities of race, in an article like – it describes race as a “weak surrogate” for a variety of genetic and non-genetic factors, from the perspective of medicine and genetics. Or this from distinguished anthropologist Alan R. Templeton: – who finds no defensible biological evidence for human races. The way we define race has everything to do with feelings and with culture. So whatever we attribute to a particular race, it’s a product of culture, and culture is made by us.
Race obfuscates to bind and blind
Jason Allen,
Langhorne, PA.
I believe the reason we have not effectively dealt with racism is because race is an easily recognizable symbol that obstructs us from seeing our true natures and intentions. If one were to ask racists the reasons why they hate another race (think the ‘5 Whys’) , you would hear the things the race they hate symbolizes and if one kept asking ‘why?’ for each reason eventually the real fears and motivations for their hatred would tell you more about them than the race they hated. Symbols tell us not of ‘others,’ but of ourselves: the things we love, hate, need, want and fear. We humans, care more for the symbols than the people the symbols represent (national flags, team colors, gang colors…).
God has made us all BEAUTIFUL.
Grace Bowling
Eugene, OR
It’s rough being different. Human nature/society/whatever tells us differences are bad. They truly aren’t and as cheeseball as it sounds, the sooner we start valuing what is inside each other, the better.
