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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