Saturday, March 22, 2008

In reference to classifying the human species, race is now under dispute among modern biologists.
The human race, as a species, is a group of beings that are not able to breed with anything other than in its own kind, just as birds can't breed with cows, fish can't breed with elephants and so on. We the human race can breed with any culture. Human race is sadly devolving, regressing at such an alarming rate it is scary. We as a people live on the same planet, in which divide and conquer has been the law since the dawn of time and before. This planet has done what it always has done - selected us for extinction. The leading scientists today are sounding the alarm saying planetary destruction is imminent. Yet, we still hold on to our religion of divide and conquer as if it will save us.
One would think that in over 2000 years, we would have evolved to the level of awareness of the planet's needs not our own. But don't be mistaken the planet is doing what it is supposed to do. It is eliminating the source of destruction that inhabits it like a bad virus or germ. Just like all things in nature, our bodies, are set up to eliminate all germs or viruses naturally. We still keep on with divide and conquer like it will save us. Martin Luther King said he wanted to be a part of a world where color was not the concern of any man, but sadly this is farther from being true now than in King's day.
The black culture and Latino culture, and all of the rest, still divide and point the finger at everyone else as the problem. I talk to people at church, and they tell me as a black man I need to be aware of the black people in history, and yet if you were to ask them what they are doing to perpetuate this human race or better the world in which we live you get "Columbus had a black mother." What are you doing today, you will get the same old song and dance: White man is holding me down; the world sees me as black. Ask if they would marry or date or even befriend a person of a different color, you get more racist propaganda than you did in the days of communism. If you were to tell them that they see color more than the white man, you would get a violent reaction or something close to it.
Ignorance is monumental in today's society. We have a world in which we have B.E.T, Spanish channels, Asian channels, and on and on in America. I don't have any problem with different cultures, or communities. That is beautiful - the differences that we have to celebrate and not hold on to like a religion that will save us because it won't. The most bigoted people haven't even been outside their own town. If they had, they might find more to celebrate and less to divide us and stir up hate. If half the white supremacists found out some of their ancestors were a different color, they would cut their own throats. For what? Ignorance is the call, the mantra, the reality of today.
Not real truth - "The Jews were black." Who cares? When all is said and done, we still have one planet we live on that has decided to let us follow the plight of the dinosaur: EXTINCTION
But we won't change. We have to play "King of the Hill;" I am better than you; you are lesser than me. Don't get me wrong I have been racially profiled like anyone. I can't get a cab in New York, London, Stockholm, on and on. I have been pulled over for being black and told I fit the description of someone who just committed a crime. I have been pulled over and had my friends asked if I was holding them hostage. I have had black people walk up to me and my wife and child and tell me I am a faggot for having a so-called white wife. I have had black people tell me I was with the Great White Satan (my wife), to my face, and only God and my wife kept me from killing them on the spot. There is a relative of mine, who has 5 kids from 5 different men . She was telling me about the death of my grandmother and thought it necessary to make racial slurs about my children - God bless her. This sort of ignorance is not fun. Yet, I have not allowed this to be the defining theme of my life.
Life is not a dress rehearsal, it is the real thing. The media has made large sums of money off of our ignorance though, pitiful as it is. Divide and conquer, a very old practice, that is in action today will be man's destruction. The Middle East, Europe, Somalia, Rwanda, Indonesia - these are just the latest pictures of the age-old cultures that have fallen victim to the bloodlust of divide and conquer.
Still we have been duped, by the media, which sees our ignorance as its profit. I have been called a black bastard, a nigger, an eggplant, a porch monkey, just to name a few. Yet this is not enough to limit me to the plight of ignorance that our planet is so accustomed to. This kind of thinking is common. It is in the churches, synagogues, temples, and in every bar, restaurant, and store. Lack of thought is too easy, too common, and is taking us spiraling ever downward. The beauty of the reality is that there is no difference in our race too big to overcome. We can mate with any culture on this planet, and it is not a problem for God, so why should it be a problem for us? This is a scientific fact that there is no biological difference in our anatomy. I can't buy this different race theory because it simply is not true or relevant. not because I say so but because it just simply is not true. I am tired of people justifying their own inadequacies by bringing something so trivial so short-sighted as color of skin into the equation. That is just sad, small-minded backward thinking. This kind of thinking will not and cannot move us as a people ahead, or out of the self-imposed dark ages that we cherish so much. This kind of thinking is moving this planet down a dark and self-destructive path. It is sad that we live in a so-called evolved society. Still suffering from this as a people on this big rock that is floating in space fragile and delicate as we really are, I don't have any answers but can only pray for the mercy of God and hope for the best.