Race is neither a biological reality or a scientific fact. “Scientists have actually been saying for quite a while that race, as biology, doesn’t exist- that there’s no biological basis for race. And that is in the facts of biology, the facts of non-concordance, the facts of continuous variation, the recentness of our evolution, the way that we […]
Robert Jensen, an author and professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, seeks to discuss and reframe the “race problem” in this discussion.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life and there are few who find it.” ~ Matthew 7.13-14, NRSV Apart of the insightful […]
Race as a category for identity or a means by which to identify one’s self is a modern concept. “The very category of ‘race’– denoting primarily skin color– was first employed as a means of classifying human bodies by Francois Bernier, a French physician, in 1684. The first authoritative racial division of humankind is found in the […]