Friday, 6 May 2016

Hallelujah



Listening to an interview with Rachel Dolezal a white woman who identifies as being black was an interesting experience. She bases he linage on the fact that we are "all" descended from an African mother.
It's an interesting claim and delivers the racial divisions which have evolved over many thousands of years into the modern cultural climate of group superiority, a deadly body blow.
The perceived distance which was created as the model of Northern European identity evolved. The need to build shelter and mechanise food production as a way of surviving the inhospitable conditions in the Northern climes, distinct  from the African who stayed behind in an Africa with its bountiful harvests, where life was easier and that in some way, being easier was somehow less of a developmental challenge.
It is now accepted that we all evolved, but according to our needs and it is a false premise that we are fundamentally different since although we modified our tools to survive , we are as one and not different in any other way.
It's a message one hears from religious groups, we are all equal in the eyes of God and under the outward exterior we all share the same physiology.
This woman has determined that her ancestors are the true arbitrators of who she is and she deliberately shies away from claiming any advantage that society claims for her because she looks white. Her ethos, that the historical tale of the subjection of one group by another is based on this damaging premise of superiority. In her view there can be no superiority other than that amongst  individuals regardless of race.
If it is true then it immediately rids the world of one of the most harmful aspects of division, that of race.  We are all of the same race, the same stock, the same ethnicity. We are all brothers and sisters, we are all one family. Hallelujah !!!

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