Template:Racism
Race
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social characteristics into categories viewed as distinct.
Originally the term was used to refer to a common language or national affiliations. It evolved through learned social constructs to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits.
The invention of the idea of race is a concepts developed from the ancient times that was born out of membership in a clan, tribe, or civil society. In the 1940s, anthropologists tried to present racial differences as scientific fact by categories like Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach divided the human species into five races in 1779 and eventually divided people based on cranial size and shape.
“Race” refers to physical differences that groups and cultures consider socially significant, while “ethnicity” refers to shared culture, such as language, ancestry, practices, and beliefs.
Racism
Racism on the other hand is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
It is also defined "as the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another."
Of course we know the ADL may define racism "as the hatred of one person by another — or the belief that another person is less than humudio broadcastsan." By defining racism in extreme terms we may do an injustice to the insidious and debilitating nature of it's effects on members of society.
Race is the result of some people choosing to categorize people based on physical or genetically related characteristic, while racism is the choice of some people to be prejudice or discriminate against or for or on behalf of one or more of these specified categories.
Racism is not the problem. It is the excuse. Hate is the problem. And like darkness and light, hate occurs where there is no love.
Love is not an emotion. Love as a utility must be practiced in order to remain viable. The practice of true Love by nature requires both choice and sacrifice. This would mean that the increase of dependance upon "legal charity" within society will degenerate the masses and cause a decrease in love and a corresponding increase in the manifestation of hate which often includes racism.
The increase in a cultural and moral dependence on fervent charity within society will not only increase the current of love amongst people it will create the social bonds of a free society.
"Character, not circumstances, makes the man." – Booker T. Washington
Race Statistics in America
Different view - same statistics:
* America Is Less Racist Today Than Ever Before including comments by Condoleezza Rice narrated by Larry Elder
https://www.prageru.com/video/america-is-less-racist-today-than-ever-before/
* Larry Elder and facts about racism and profiling in America 5min
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-america-racist/
* Facts matter
https://www.facebook.com/127225910653607/posts/3236873216355512/
* Are the Police Racist? by Heather Mac Donald
https://www.prageru.com/video/are-the-police-racist/
* Cops Are the Good Guys
https://www.prageru.com/video/cops-are-the-good-guys/
* The Left Wants to Keep Racism Alive 5min
In America, there's a card more valuable than any card from Visa or American Express. What is it? How can you get one? Candace Owens answers these questions and explains why the Left continually invokes racism. 5min
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-left-wants-to-keep-racism-alive/
Is Larry Elder an Uncle Tom? Who or what is harming and destroying the black community?
https://youtu.be/vbhFubiFiqg 56 minutes
- "All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation." Thomas Sowell
Any fact or even the "messenger" who points to a fact that contradicts the theory of major racial oppression is called an enemy, an "Uncle Tom", or a racist. Like religious zealots who use their ideology to justify themselves, despite their weakness and frailties or fallacies, will gather their "pitchforks and torches" and desire to burn you at the stake even if they set the whole world on fire.
- "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." Thomas Sowell
This idea that racism is the cause of the plight of the Black-man was financially lucrative for many who depended on continuing racial friction or the appearance of it. Men have depended on keeping the people at odds from Caesar to Al Sharpton.
- "Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans." Thomas Sowell
Could the victim of racism become a racist?
"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." Booker T Washington
Without a culture of forgiveness, and a regular call to forgive, you will become like those whom you are insisting upon hating.[1]
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." [2] You will not be able to do that until you forgive them first.
- "For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Matthew 7:2
"Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color." – Booker T. Washington
Those who preach any other gospel than love and forgiveness lead the people away from liberty under God. Only the truth will set you free.
"The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country." Thomas Sowell
Assigning collective guilt may be simple or even comforting but it may be expensive in social capital. Focusing our attention on the negative may graft negative into our own mind. To do so with resentment, judgment and angry unforgiveness may draw us into the very thing we claim to hate.
Booker T Washington knew that "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence." He knew to whine and complain or just think of yourself as a victim whether real or imagined is destructive. To desire benefits without working for them and becoming dependent upon those gratuities would degenerate and destroy the very character of the people.
"I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed." – Booker T Washington
"I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down, making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded." Booker T Washington's “Atlanta Compromise” address or “Cast down your bucket" speech
Audio Broadcasts
Download Racism Recording #1 or press play
Is racism statistically a problem in the United States?
If not, what is the problem?
Riots in Christ's time over the Corban of the Pharisees which was Legal charity. Modern Church VS Pharisees- Are you following blind guides?; Pharaoh's power source. The scolding of Davy Crockett and weakening the poor. Thinking like Christ instructed because socialism is incompatible with Christianity; Destroying other peoples' statues is stealing; Christian response to rioters; Individuals have power - in righteousness--- Keep perspective.
The symptom and the cure
Racism is not the cause of societies degeneration but the symptom. To war against racism without understanding the root cause is like slaying windmills as if they were dragons.
It is the seven vices of mankind that decay and injure the members of the human race including what we often list as Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. These are often referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins but sin is just falling short. So, vices are just falling short of or neglecting virtue. Racism damages the individual racist to the point of degeneration because it cultivates pride to the level of hubris.
Racism can also draw the unforgiving victim of racism into the same degenerating process altering their state of mind. Men like Booker T Washington knew that unforgiveness and whining about the abuse of racist was detrimental to the thinking of the individual members of mankind, the race of men. The key to growth as an individual was to make yourself useful and productive.
All vices, as the absence of virtue, contribute to the degeneration of the individuals and society as a whole. Racism is often also driven by a spirit of Lust from that Latin word "luxuria" meaning "puritanical, self-righteous and self indulgent". In fact, not only the victimizer, but victim who is without forgiveness of racism can be degenerated by Gluttony, Greed, Sloth which will lead to Envy, and Wrath.
This process can be seen throughout history. Tacitus wrote:
"The vices, of which alone he boasts, overthrew the Empire, even when he was but the Emperor's friend. Shall he earn that Empire now by his manner and his gait, or by those womanish adornments? They are deceived, on whom luxury imposes by its false show of liberality; he will know how to squander, he will not know how to give." [3]
Tacitus goes on to speak of the "This lawless spirit will pass into the provinces" and "We shall give you a donative for your loyalty, as surely as others can give it for your treason."
The covetous practices of the welfare state entices the self-indulgent individual to betray their fellow man to continue to desire those "bounties, donations, and benefits” that destroy liberty and the love of it in society.[4]
This is no different than what Polybius warned of more than a hundred years before:
"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; [5] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,[6] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." [7] [8]
- Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.
- The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.
"He who lives outside the law is a slave. The free man is the man who lives within the law, whether that law be the physical or the divine."– Booker T. Washington
To covet your neighbor's goods through the exercising authority of government is to live outside the divine law of God.
It is the modern welfare state instituted by the New Deal and FDR and the Great Society with its War on Poverty by LBJ that did more to damage the hearts and minds of the Black community than all the racism of the last hundred years or more. It has lead to violence and Riots. racism has just become the excuse to justify Lust, Gluttony, and Greed that come from desiring benefits at the expense of their neighbor. There should be no doubt that Sloth, Envy, and Pride will follow ending in the Wrath of riots in the street.
So, the problems of our times is no different than those of the past and have virtually nothing to do with black or white made categories called race. Neither slavery nor racism is the cause of the degeneration of individuals in society as much as the liberal who justifies the vices that bring real degeneration. The real problems of society is not racism but the cry of racism by those who contribute to the growth of vices through a "false show of liberality" whether in physical benefits, affirmative action or emotional justification.
"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward." – Booker T Washington
To suggest the Black man or any one who is poor cannot succeed without help is a disservice but to help them by forced offerings through the exercising authority of government will condemn the whole of society.
"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. – Booker T. Washington
As Christians the pursuit of happiness must be by what we do through faith, hope, and charity and not force, fear, and fealty as the Gospel specifies.
It is through a daily ministration of love through charity as Christ commanded and the practice of Pure Religion that God is able to cultivate his love in us through the Holy Spirit.
"Great men cultivate love… Only little men cherish a spirit of hatred." – Booker T. Washington
The "manner" of our "gait" should not be "womanish"[9]. The people are "deceived" by the "false show of liberality" of the socialist with whining cries of pity and who "know how to squander" but "will not know how to give".
"A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected." – Booker T. Washington
"The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. – Booker T Washington
- ↑ Luke 6:37 ¶ Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
- ↑ Booker T Washington
- ↑ The Histories, By Tacitus, Written 109 A.C.E., Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb.(habitune et incessu an illo muliebri ornatu mereretur imperium? falluntur quibus luxuria specie liberalitatis imponit: perdere iste sciet, donare nesciet.)
- ↑ “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- ↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
- ↑ "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book at Loeb's classic library, or see our comparison of translations at Polybius#Translations_compare
- ↑ An alternate translation in context, "9. For no sooner had the knowledge of the jealousy and hatred existing in the citizens against them which is replaced by democracy, emboldened some one to oppose the government by word or deed, than he was sure to find the whole people ready and prepared to take his side. Having then got rid of these rulers by assassination or exile, they do not venture to set up a king again, being still in terror of the injustice to which this led before; nor dare they intrust the common interests again to more than one, considering the recent example of their misconduct: and therefore, as the only sound hope left them is that which depends upon themselves, they are driven to take refuge in that; and so changed the constitution from an oligarchy to a democracy, and took upon themselves the superintendence and charge of the state. And as long as any survive who have had experience of oligarchical supremacy and domination, they regard their present constitution as a blessing, and hold equality and freedom as of the utmost value. But as soon as a new generation has arisen, and the democracy has descended to their children’s children, long association weakens their value for equality and freedom, and some seek to become more powerful than the ordinary citizens; and the most liable to this temptation are the rich. (which degenerates into rule of corruption and violence, only to be stopped by a return to despotism.) So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbours, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honours, produces a reign of mere violence. Then come tumultuous assemblies, massacres, banishments, redivisions of land; until, after losing all trace of civilisation, it has once more found a master and a despot." Translator: Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Release Date: November 8, 2013 [EBook #44126]
- ↑ womanish adornments (muliebri )means a man who is not manly, does not measure up