Category: Race

Hatred begins at home

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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ~ Mother Theresa I am convinced that the reason why we continue to live as we have lived– cynical, despondent and dazed– is because there has been no change in the way that we love.  Our love is not deep enough or […]

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No Longer a Negro

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Hope Yen of the Associated Press reports that “Negro will no longer be used on U.S. Census surveys.”  How does this change influence your understanding of identity in America?

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Race Fact #3

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Race was not a social category in the ancient world of the Bible. “The ancient world did not make skin color the focus of irrational sentiments or the basis for uncritical evaluation. …(T)he ancient world did not fall into the error of biological racism; black skin color was not a sign of inferiority; Greeks and […]

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Race Fact #2

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The social colors of race, here being black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige people, are a modern invention. “The terms Indian and Negro were both borrowed from the Hispanic languages, the one originally deriving from (mistaken) geographical locality and the other from human complexion. … After about 1680 … a new tern of self- identification […]

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Race Fact #1

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Race is a social construct, a human invention.   “Since 1970 there has been a progressive decline in the use of the term race in anthropology textbooks published in the United States.  This decline occurred most precipitously during the late 1970s, when either the term was no longer mentioned in the texts or the authors […]

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