singular_me
25th May 2017, 09:48 AM
I cannot read the whole thing right now but cannot help but wonder: the vikings can invade, enslave other white countries, or even the black moors colonize most spain and the south of france for quite a while, without being tagged as racists... indeed something has changed.
This because the color skin never was the real issue... but the coercion upon society caused by war, invasion, colonization... Love is the motion that is recognizing this and the action that follows, going after anybody promoting coercion.... The pendulum swings dangerously
This column is more about all the predictive programing that has shaped today society over the centuries. And the absolute evidence of human conditioning. Good job NWO! Good job at twisting darwinism too!!
https://simplelifestrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Darwin-change-V2.png
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Race, Racism, and Whiteness
By Dr. Alex Mikulich
Introduction
Over 100 years ago, in his introduction to The Souls of Black Folk, W.E. B. Du Bois wrote: “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” Despite claims that we live in a “post-racial” society after the historic election of Barack Obama, the fact remains that the color line and racial hierarchy endures in the 21st century.
At issue for the Jesuit Social Research Institute, from the perspective of Roman Catholic social teaching and thought, is the persistence of disproportionate advantage for white Americans in relationship to pervasive and persistent disproportionate disadvantage for people of color in every sphere of life including health, wealth, income, education, housing, and the criminal justice system.
More than one issue among others, the contradiction between Gospel values and practices of racial inequality is scandalous. The contradiction between Roman Catholic and American claims for universal human dignity and equality, and the reality of social, political, and economic advantage that white Americans consciously and unconsciously accept and assume, betrays this scandal.
Racial prejudice, in every form, the Roman Catholic Church states:
denies equal dignity of all members of the human family and blasphemes the Creator, can only be eradicated by going to its roots, where it is formed: in the human heart.[1]
In the U.S. context, in which too many assume that racial justice has been achieved because of passage of Civil Rights legislation in 1965, the Roman Catholic Church rightly emphasizes that
it is not enough that laws prohibit or punish all types of racial discrimination: these laws can be easily gotten around if the community for which they are intended does not fully accept them. To overcome discrimination, a community must interiorize the values that inspire just laws and live out, in day-to-day life, the conviction of equal dignity of all.[2]
The Church is clear that conversion of people’s hearts must be joined with denunciation of every form of exclusion, and that the State and society should promote “equitable behavior, legislative dispositions, and social structures.”[3]
Du Bois’ prescience regarding the persistence of racial injustice is no small part due to its historical rootedness. Race has been “a fundamental in global politics and culture for half a millennium. It continues to signify and structure social life not only experientially and locally, but nationally and globally.”[4] In 2001, the Roman Catholic Church agrees:
The situation since 1988 with regard to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance has regrettably not improved; indeed it has perhaps deteriorated, at a time when the movement of peoples has continued to increase and intermingling of cultures and multi-ethnicity have become “social facts.”[5]
The Church and science agree that there is only one race—the human race—and that we all trace our roots to Africa.[6] “Race” has no scientific basis. Divine revelation “insists on the unity of the human family.”[7] The African proverb that “I am because we are” says it best. Drawing upon this African insight, the rock star Bono asks: “could it be that all Americans are, in that sense, African-Americans?” Theologically and practically, the Church calls all people to witness to the innumerable ways that “I am because we are.”
The U.S. Social and Historical Construction of Race and Whiteness
Contrary to science, however, society uses discrepant terms for “race.” For example, application forms that request an individual’s race use terms that refer to color (white, black), a common cultural and linguistic heritage (Hispanic), or a broad geographical region (Asian).
The ambiguity of racial and ethnic terms in society reveals a deeper problem with the historical construction of whiteness. The problem, the historian Nell Irvin Painter explains, is that the history of slavery helped construct the idea of the white race in contradictory ways. On the one hand, “Americans traditionally associate whiteness with freedom and blackness with slavery.” On the other, “Caucasian” as “a designation for white people originates in concepts of beauty related to the white slave trade from eastern Europe, and whiteness remains embedded in visions of beauty found in art history and popular culture.”[8]
Although race has no scientific basis, “Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition.”[9] White Americans tend to remain ignorant both of the fact that we are socialized racially and that there are contradictions between self-professed claims to values of equality and the ways we actually live in the 21st century. The philosopher Charles Mills calls this ignorance an inverted, or perverse, way of knowing in which whites “will in general be unable to understand the world they themselves have made.”[10]
White Americans often tell people of color to “get over the past.” In doing so, whites miss James Baldwin admonition that “History, as no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary,” Baldwin continues,
the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, our aspirations. And it is with great pain and terror that one begins to realize this. In great pain and terror one begins to assess the history which has placed one where one is and formed one’s point of view.[11]
EXTREMELY LONG, HAVE SOME POPCORN
http://www.loyno.edu/jsri/race-racism-and-whiteness
This because the color skin never was the real issue... but the coercion upon society caused by war, invasion, colonization... Love is the motion that is recognizing this and the action that follows, going after anybody promoting coercion.... The pendulum swings dangerously
This column is more about all the predictive programing that has shaped today society over the centuries. And the absolute evidence of human conditioning. Good job NWO! Good job at twisting darwinism too!!
https://simplelifestrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Darwin-change-V2.png
-----------------------
Race, Racism, and Whiteness
By Dr. Alex Mikulich
Introduction
Over 100 years ago, in his introduction to The Souls of Black Folk, W.E. B. Du Bois wrote: “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” Despite claims that we live in a “post-racial” society after the historic election of Barack Obama, the fact remains that the color line and racial hierarchy endures in the 21st century.
At issue for the Jesuit Social Research Institute, from the perspective of Roman Catholic social teaching and thought, is the persistence of disproportionate advantage for white Americans in relationship to pervasive and persistent disproportionate disadvantage for people of color in every sphere of life including health, wealth, income, education, housing, and the criminal justice system.
More than one issue among others, the contradiction between Gospel values and practices of racial inequality is scandalous. The contradiction between Roman Catholic and American claims for universal human dignity and equality, and the reality of social, political, and economic advantage that white Americans consciously and unconsciously accept and assume, betrays this scandal.
Racial prejudice, in every form, the Roman Catholic Church states:
denies equal dignity of all members of the human family and blasphemes the Creator, can only be eradicated by going to its roots, where it is formed: in the human heart.[1]
In the U.S. context, in which too many assume that racial justice has been achieved because of passage of Civil Rights legislation in 1965, the Roman Catholic Church rightly emphasizes that
it is not enough that laws prohibit or punish all types of racial discrimination: these laws can be easily gotten around if the community for which they are intended does not fully accept them. To overcome discrimination, a community must interiorize the values that inspire just laws and live out, in day-to-day life, the conviction of equal dignity of all.[2]
The Church is clear that conversion of people’s hearts must be joined with denunciation of every form of exclusion, and that the State and society should promote “equitable behavior, legislative dispositions, and social structures.”[3]
Du Bois’ prescience regarding the persistence of racial injustice is no small part due to its historical rootedness. Race has been “a fundamental in global politics and culture for half a millennium. It continues to signify and structure social life not only experientially and locally, but nationally and globally.”[4] In 2001, the Roman Catholic Church agrees:
The situation since 1988 with regard to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance has regrettably not improved; indeed it has perhaps deteriorated, at a time when the movement of peoples has continued to increase and intermingling of cultures and multi-ethnicity have become “social facts.”[5]
The Church and science agree that there is only one race—the human race—and that we all trace our roots to Africa.[6] “Race” has no scientific basis. Divine revelation “insists on the unity of the human family.”[7] The African proverb that “I am because we are” says it best. Drawing upon this African insight, the rock star Bono asks: “could it be that all Americans are, in that sense, African-Americans?” Theologically and practically, the Church calls all people to witness to the innumerable ways that “I am because we are.”
The U.S. Social and Historical Construction of Race and Whiteness
Contrary to science, however, society uses discrepant terms for “race.” For example, application forms that request an individual’s race use terms that refer to color (white, black), a common cultural and linguistic heritage (Hispanic), or a broad geographical region (Asian).
The ambiguity of racial and ethnic terms in society reveals a deeper problem with the historical construction of whiteness. The problem, the historian Nell Irvin Painter explains, is that the history of slavery helped construct the idea of the white race in contradictory ways. On the one hand, “Americans traditionally associate whiteness with freedom and blackness with slavery.” On the other, “Caucasian” as “a designation for white people originates in concepts of beauty related to the white slave trade from eastern Europe, and whiteness remains embedded in visions of beauty found in art history and popular culture.”[8]
Although race has no scientific basis, “Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition.”[9] White Americans tend to remain ignorant both of the fact that we are socialized racially and that there are contradictions between self-professed claims to values of equality and the ways we actually live in the 21st century. The philosopher Charles Mills calls this ignorance an inverted, or perverse, way of knowing in which whites “will in general be unable to understand the world they themselves have made.”[10]
White Americans often tell people of color to “get over the past.” In doing so, whites miss James Baldwin admonition that “History, as no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary,” Baldwin continues,
the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, our aspirations. And it is with great pain and terror that one begins to realize this. In great pain and terror one begins to assess the history which has placed one where one is and formed one’s point of view.[11]
EXTREMELY LONG, HAVE SOME POPCORN
http://www.loyno.edu/jsri/race-racism-and-whiteness