Centuries ago, a terrible idea was born, an idea that ravaged the world, that justified and fed the flames of war and genocide, torture, brutal oppression and the institutionalization of slavery—among other atrocities.
The concept of race has been fueling divisiveness for decades, if not centuries. Now that I give it some more thought, why the HELL do we need to specify race on official documents, or anywhere for that matter? The numbers of lives lost in the name of race has been despicable and heart-wrenching!!! Rukhsana Sukhan, I completely agree with you I loathe race. However, we continue to perpetuate the concept. What a disgusting hypocrisy!!!!
I am human; when completing forms or applications that ask for my race, I always write in “Human” or check the empty box and write “Human.” I have been doing this since 1998 and college forms, work applications, etc..and I paid a price for this in hindsight. We are all humans, why cant it just be that way? Asking for race from people continues separation or differences among each other in my opinion. I also grew up in inner big City, Detroit…where I grew up in a diverse environment, like you did in New York. And yes, I could see very early, there is something wrong here. I was born in 1961 and remember the race riots and the Army tanks going down our street in 1967. The term race says, we are all different, the term human says, we are all the same. We are all human why cant it just be that way. I think it good however that we have had some extra priviledge for people of color to help balance out the lack of opportunities of the past 50 years, if we could move toward all humans, but not sure if society is ready to act on that thought pattern of no race, as it seems white supremacy is still alive unfortunately. The more diversity children are exposed to and DNA testing to help people SEE that there is diversity in their dna for many people/kids might help alleviate the prejudice toward nonwhite people. People should not be “racialized” but that is what the race question on forms create and perpetuate racism in the US and the world.
I loathe the concept of race. I agree with you and your wife that it’s the worst idea humans have ever had and we should unmake race.
The concept of race has been fueling divisiveness for decades, if not centuries. Now that I give it some more thought, why the HELL do we need to specify race on official documents, or anywhere for that matter? The numbers of lives lost in the name of race has been despicable and heart-wrenching!!! Rukhsana Sukhan, I completely agree with you I loathe race. However, we continue to perpetuate the concept. What a disgusting hypocrisy!!!!
I am human; when completing forms or applications that ask for my race, I always write in “Human” or check the empty box and write “Human.” I have been doing this since 1998 and college forms, work applications, etc..and I paid a price for this in hindsight. We are all humans, why cant it just be that way? Asking for race from people continues separation or differences among each other in my opinion. I also grew up in inner big City, Detroit…where I grew up in a diverse environment, like you did in New York. And yes, I could see very early, there is something wrong here. I was born in 1961 and remember the race riots and the Army tanks going down our street in 1967. The term race says, we are all different, the term human says, we are all the same. We are all human why cant it just be that way. I think it good however that we have had some extra priviledge for people of color to help balance out the lack of opportunities of the past 50 years, if we could move toward all humans, but not sure if society is ready to act on that thought pattern of no race, as it seems white supremacy is still alive unfortunately. The more diversity children are exposed to and DNA testing to help people SEE that there is diversity in their dna for many people/kids might help alleviate the prejudice toward nonwhite people. People should not be “racialized” but that is what the race question on forms create and perpetuate racism in the US and the world.