I Can Solve The Race Issue With One Simple Law...

[Koshinn]

I have a much better solution to this issue of race and know an absolute way to unite all of man kind.

Have them hate something else!

This is why we need to conquer the stars and expand our species so that we can find other species and instead of humanity being racists against each other we can all become xenophobic and speciesist/human supremacism/humanocentrism. The idea that humans, as both beings and a species, are the superior sentients. Essentially the equivalent of race supremacy on a galactic scale, it entails intolerant discrimination against sentient non-humans.

No matter what mankind is tribal and violent amongst itself nd if we don't focus and direct that anger towards and exterior source then we will surely collaspe and destroy ourselves.

Fooking Prawns!

Yep.

People are extremely tribal, as you say. We always find ways to group up and make it "us vs them" whether it be nationalism, sports teams, branches of the armed service, states, political parties, religions, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, pistol caliber choice, annual salary, choice of Internet forum, etc.

The only way to get all of humanity into one group is to find a "them" that isn't also in humanity. Which means aliens.

[glocktogo]

from America ! you are American !

from Africa you are African ! funny one of my buddies put down he is African and the lady said you cant do that you are not black he laughed said not all Africans are black ! the lady was confused big time

from Japan you are Japanese

that is my take on it you are either a piece of trash person or not white trash black trash all the same in my book

I know a Venezuelan who's Asian. Or an Asian who's Venezuelan. I can't remember which and now I'm confused, but he's a nice guy!

[C-grunt]

This stuff just cracks me up when people get their panties all twisted over race. If you're black you're black, if you're white you're white, if you're Asian you're Asian, etc....

There is a white guy at work who caused a big hoopla when he put himself down as African American, which being a South African immigrant he is. He got in a big argument saying that he was more African American than the black guys complaining about it. It was funny.

My whole theory is racism will go away after we stop making a big deal out of it. I didn't know about racism until I learned it in school

[Brimstone]

Funny, this post reminded me of when I first married my Yankee wife and we went to visit my family in SC. She saw a bumper sticker that said "I Hunt Black and Tans" and she railed on me about how awful and racist it was. My wife was sure that meants blacks and Mexicans. She was a little embarrassed when I explained that the black and tan it was referring to was a coon dog.

[Phillygunguy]

So how does it work when people who are lighter hate people who are darker? Many years ago I was on the subway I'm the only white guy mind you, everyone else was black. They looked at me funny but didn't say anything. Then at one of the stops A black guy, really dark skin came on and I heard all of the black people call this guy, a Black mother effer and a effing n$&@*r! I was shocked and felt sorry for this dude so I'm not sure how classification of lighter/ darker will improve race relations when people of the same "race" already hate each other.

[GH41]

Funny, this post reminded me of when I first married my Yankee wife and we went to visit my family in SC. She saw a bumper sticker that said "I Hunt Black and Tans" and she railed on me about how awful and racist it was. My wife was sure that meants blacks and Mexicans. She was a little embarrassed when I explained that the black and tan it was referring to was a coon dog.

I live in SC. She probably wouldn't understand "If it's brown it's down" mantra around dog hunting camps on doe days!! GH

[SteyrAUG]

So how does it work when people who are lighter hate people who are darker? Many years ago I was on the subway I'm the only white guy mind you, everyone else was black. They looked at me funny but didn't say anything. Then at one of the stops A black guy, really dark skin came on and I heard all of the black people call this guy, a Black mother effer and a effing n$&@*r! I was shocked and felt sorry for this dude so I'm not sure how classification of lighter/ darker will improve race relations when people of the same "race" already hate each other.

The qualifiers have to be so impossibly stupid that even the incredibly stupid people finally say "Oh.....I get it now."

[MistWolf]

It's simpler than even darker & lighter- We are all a child of God. We are all human.

I've also learned folks are not what I define them as, they are what they define themselves as

[Honu]

Abraham Lincoln

You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.

kinda fits with the race thing its about character and actions etc.. of people not color

[mikelowrey]

I heard all of the black people call this guy, a Black mother effer and a effing n$&@*r! I was shocked and felt sorry for this dude so I'm not sure how classification of lighter/ darker will improve race relations when people of the same "race" already hate each other.

Funny that it is true, they can call themselves a n$&*a but if you come around and call them like that then you a racist. Had that argument with one of them until I told him to man up and stop being a p$&@y. Bunch of fakes.