Race Fact #9

There is only one Caucasian.  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the “father of craniology”, “coined the word Caucasian to describe the white race.  It is curious that this word– which is still widely used– is based upon a single skull in Blumenbach’s collection which came from the Caucasian mountain region of Russia.  Blumenbach found strong resemblances between […]

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Did you know?

Okay, so I’m a few days late.  But, I didn’t know that March 21 is the “International Day for the Elimination of Racism.”  The date was chosen to mark the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre that occurred on this day in 1960 in Sharpeville, South Africa.

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How racism questions God

“Since racism assumes some segments of humanity to be defective in essential being, and since for Christians all being is from the hand of God, racism alone among the idolatries calls into question the divine creative action.  The central claim of the racist is fundamentally a proposition concerning the nature of creation and the action […]

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Race Fact #8

Racism is a religion.  It is a faith. Ruth Benedict defines racism as”the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by Nature to hereditary inferiority and another group is destined to hereditary superiority.  It is the dogma that the hope of civilization depends upon eliminating some races and keeping others pure.  It is the dogma […]

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If you’re Christian and a racist

“When the racist is also a Christian, which is often the case in America, he is frequently a polytheist.  Historically, in polytheistic faiths, various gods have controlled various spheres of authority.  Thus, a Christian racist may think he lives under the requirements of the God biblical faith in most areas of his life, but whenever […]

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