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22487, Mistaken identity
Posted by guest, Fri Jul-28-00 11:17 AM
The latest dispute Ive seen against my so-called "colorblind" theories is that they hope to suggest that we abandon any perception of racial differences that "cant be ignored."

Statements like this regard the matter of physical characteristics that supposedly comprise the "white" race.

What I want everyone to understand is that every physical characteristic that is attributed to race variance is not fostered by race ideology nor is it given rise to by any scientific or natural or biological demonstration of race in human kind- these are examples of ethnicity and culture and national origin.

While it would be easy and convienent to go along with the implications that coincide skin color with racial classification it is important to understand that skin color was never such much a premise of racial classification.

race classification was built to support premises of evolution and to demonstrate evolutionary development in humans- race ideology was provided as the demonstrative example of how humans had evolved claiming of course that whites had evolved farther as their appearance was less apelike, claiming that their pale skin was a further advancement on the dark thick skins of blacks and their primate antecedents.

Understand no that in claiming to be white you are upholding those views and none other; The only thing that bands "white" people together as a group is the presumption that they belong to one group and that presumption stems from the idea that they are more evolved than anyone else. If you have the audacity to consider such ideology a matter of pragmatism or realism or benign observation then you must be willing to admit that looking and being "white" also means that they look and act less like apes than we do- otherwise you have no choice but to see them as they are and not as they would propose to be.

Unless you are willing to accept the idea that non-whites are naturally inferior and less evolved then you have no redemptive grasp on white racial classification as ideas like this are all it has to offer.

K