Black is good, white is bad. Black is bad, white is good. Which is it? Most Americans know that neither generalization is true. Individual character determines quality, not money in the bank, the neighborhood where you live, or the color of your skin.
Yet, increased racial tensions have caught Americans off guard. Headlines increasingly report people of all colors, in and out of the government, are fueling the racial discord. Issues of race emerged in the 2008 presidential primaries, at just about the time the race card neared a DOA pronouncement. Racial agitators seized the opportunity and resurfaced too once again provide it with life-support.
White House Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd suggested "...white people have held their jobs too long and should turn them over..." Is Lloyd's proposed redistribution of wealth ideology — socialism, racism or both? The President of the United States embroiled himself in a law enforcement fracas and interjected race. Americans asked when rapper Kanye West took the microphone from Taylor Swift at the VMA Awards, was it rudeness, racism, or was Kanye having a fubu moment gone awry? People have difficulty distinguishing between racism, poor judgment, or just bad behavior when tensions rise.
A warning from across the pond illustrated how the radical groups in the UK were flaming the fires of racism as the BBC reportedly indoctrinated the public to Charles Darwin's theories of evolution and survival of the fittest, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the release of Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, on November 24, 2009. Darwin's ideas spawned Social Darwinism, which pits people against one another based on race, class, and disability. According to former UC Berkeley Law professor, Phillip E. Johnson, the philosophy of evolution fueled German militarism and Hitlerism, which remains a subject taught today in every American public school with no disagreement allowed.
Co-author, Sharon Sebastian, raises the question of whether or not Darwin's ill conceived and personally biased theories created chasms between people of varying skin color. "Clearly, Darwin's ironclad influence in the school system, and the degenerative effect based on unfounded science, is unjustifiable when Americans from all backgrounds have worked long and hard to insure equality today for all citizens."
The authors, Sebastian and Raymond G. Bohlin, point out that this new book, Darwin's Racists — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, reveals what most Americans don't know — that based on DNA and modern science, we are ONE RACE — THE HUMAN RACE. The book examines the dangers of teaching Darwin's race-based theory, with no scientific foundation, to children of all ages across America. Black Americans are among the loudest to decry the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution as a "fact." Based on false scientific justification and his personal biases, Charles Darwin deemed what he called the "duskier races," to be inferior, sub-humans, and variants. Renowned Harvard evolutionist, Stephen J. Gould, a staunch Darwinian, concluded that though "...racist attitudes were common..." and increased by, "orders of magnitude" that had not previously existed until after Darwin's theory of evolution became accepted.
"Darwin's Racists addresses today's social, political, and racial divide in America. From Darwin's admirers Marx, Mao, Hitler, and Sanger, to today's flagrant persecution of those who oppose the theory of evolution, the book informs and equips the reader as never before regarding mid-1800 naturalist Charles Darwin's impact on 21st century America. The book reveals the prime impetus of much of today's class struggle, racial strife and a devaluing of life of our disabled, elderly and poor. Darwin's Racists is a book that Washington would do well to read."
For more information on the book, visit the website Darwin's Racists.
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humans are humans
I believe it is true that we are all created equal. Although everyone has their own thoughts on racism i truly believe that no person is better or worse than another person. The way that I look at is that if we have all have the same body parts and function the same why would someone go further and say that we are different. I watched a video in class this semester called “Black to White” which had some very interesting things inside it. The film was produced by Ice Cube and was about two families one black and one white that would kinda wear the other families skin on a daily basis. Make up crews would transform the two families to look the opposite race so that they could learn more about the other race and the differences in the way they are treated. Ultimately both families realized that racism is very real and they were often treated different than they would be wearing the opposite skin. What I learned from the film is that racism is real but human are humans and thats what really matters in the end.
We hold these truths to be self evident.
That all men are created equal. Except these words that we still hold so near and dear to us were written during a time when men were holding other men against their will and calling them property. This enormous blemish upon our history books, which I should add has been twisted up and retold to make the white man look a little less villainous, makes these words a little less powerful.
There are still those who prescribe to the notion of social Darwinism and the idea of "survival of the fittest", but they should know that they're sorely mistaken. If it really was survival of the fittest then it would appear that the rich white male would be the fittest. We could all prescribe to this notion if all people were allowed to begin on an even playing field and started off with the same opportunities and were blessed with equal representation and power. We know this not to be the case. Although that document we discussed earlier claims the opposite and that is what we are taught that we live in a meritocracy and people can do whatever they want if they put their minds to it and pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but these are myths.
Never ending racism.
Everyday in class we talk about how racism comes up in everyday lives. In this article shows some racial tension when it comes to whites and african Americans. some races take offense when they are called different ethnicities or called the wrong one, the one thing that each ethnicity has is pride. In these posts I see that people are getting upset about people posting things about basic stereotypes. we all need to realize that 21st racism exists and we might not even know it. we should stop categorizing people into different groups of different races. for example the red necks and the upper class white people, this is discrimination between ones own race. In the beginning of this article when it says black is good white is bad white is good black is bad, I feel like the author was just stating 2 theories and one has to be right. It's like saying here's two scenarios which one is right? because white and black can not both be good one has to play the bad guy.
Darwin a Racist?
I can definitely see the argument that some people have that Charles Darwin's teachings are somewhat racist. The title of his writings even sounds racist."The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life", seems to many to refer to some sort of argument for racial superiority. However, I don't think that Darwin was referring to human races when talking about this. He was talking about all species. However, many people, especially those that were white, used his teachings to try and show some sort of racial superiority for whites. This article remids me of the Lopez article from class and how whites were trying to seperate people into certain races, but they can't because there is not one set of genes that can distinguish a black man from a white man. They just try and use racial illusions to show a difference between races. I'm not entirely sure whether Darwin was racist or not, but I do think that his teachings greatly influenced the eugenics movement and racism as well.
One Race---the Human Race :D
This article is regarding misassumption and generalized idea of races that people have in today’s society. The author starts out question which race is better? Black than White or White than Black? The answers to these questions, of course, no one knows because as the author said these are generalized ideas that one can possibly not find any answers. These are just generalized ideas and sayings that people have; however, none o f these words are actually proved in order for one to entirely come up with an answer. The author points out regarding the “Darwin’s point” in his book which is my favorite that there is one race which is the human race. I entirely believe in this concept and for the longest time, I was failing to see the difference between all the races because I had always thought that there was just one race which is the fact that since we are all the same then there is not any differences in for example, race.
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