Human Liberation Front
23rd July 2013, 15:33
As Paula Deens face is plastered across our television screens and the media, as the dark shadow of the Trayvon Martin case hangs over the United States, we are forced to confront the issue of race, the hypocrisy it proliferates and the ominous position it places Humanity in.
The case of Paula Deen is based around her use of a derogatory word in the distant past and is today reprimanded harshly for it with her show being pulled and her products being stripped from the shelves of Wal-Mart, while derogatory terms used against whites by blacks is kicked to the curb like a flea ridden, emaciated puppy and forgotten. In addition, terms like “cracker” are not seen as derogatory by the black community, as seen in the testimony of a female witness in the Trayvon Martin case. This kind of hypocrisy and ignorance only leads to more unnecessary racial strife. Why is it okay for one race to be openly and wantonly racist but it’s not okay for the other race to be so? I posit this question to ALL races and no one specific. Every race is guilty of the above so to single out any one race is ridiculous and unjust.
Another example of racial hypocrisy is Jamie Foxx and his comments surrounding his experience of starring in Quentin Tarentinos film D’Jango Unchained, which goes, “I kill all the white people in the movie! How great is that?” Now, think about if a white person said the same thing, but in reference to black people none of us would hear the end of it. We would see Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton coming out and blasting the person who said it while the media dragged that persons name through the mud and rightfully so, because jokes about killing ANY race is disgusting no matter who is making the joke. Period.
Aside from the obvious abhorrence towards Jamie Foxx’s ill-conceived jest, what else is bothersome about this and other racially charged innuendos is that it taps into the racial fetishism that plagues this country. What I mean by “racial fetishism” is two-fold in its definition. First, as in mythological parlance, it’s an item imbued with divine power. This can be seen in how “sacred” race tends to be to some people based on ideas passed down to younger generations backed by no evidence. And second, race is treated as an object of fixation, but instead of sexual joy it’s the elation an individual or group feels for being a part of that race. What positive things does racial fetishism give to the Human Race? Nothing, but negatives like racial nationalism which in turn creates strife amongst Humanity, ignorance and even the worst of all situations; genocide. You don’t have to look hard for examples when you can easily find information on Nazi Germany, the attempted genocide of the Irish (based on the Anglo-Saxon vs. Celts whom were seen as inferior and even sub-human), the Rwandan Genocide, the American Indian War and others. So, to those who believe racial fetishism is harmless, look at these few examples and think more on it. It’s dangerous thinking and it can result in the death of many.
As always, though, the racially minded naysayer will still say that minorities can’t be racist due to the lack of power minorities have (which is contradicted by Obamas rise to power where a majority of minorities voted for him) within the white power structure thus providing no teeth for minority based racism. This is no more than an attempt at justifying racial hatred by minorities for whites in general. There is no rational reason to believe that since one group has no power it’s okay to be ignorant and racist. Will the same be said once the Hispanic population overtakes the white population? Will whites then be excused to be racist dullards? Of course not, we all acknowledge the fact that racism is pure evil. Being a racist dullard is not empowering, but reverting to primitive tribalism. It’s the subversion of rational, logical thought in favor of Neanderthal brutishness.
Solutions, from those who honestly want race relations to be improved and even progress from it’s current stalemate, need to be placed on the table before calling for extreme measures that could result in state sanctioned deaths. We need to find peaceful solutions by all people united in effort. One solution I provide uses science and can be done by everyone. So, ask yourselves, what would YOU propose to do in order to improve and progress race relations peacefully? Think for a moment on that question before reading on.
The Evolution Solution
Since the solidification of the Theory of Evolution into science fact (despite the “theory” moniker, it is backed up by mounting evidence) in the mid-1800’s by Charles Darwin in his groundbreaking work, On the Origins of Species, we have been further enlightened about our origins as a race (the Human Race) outside of conventional religious thought. We now know that not only do we share ancestry with apes, but with all of life! More importantly, though, is our shared ancestry with each other.
All modern humans share their ancestry from Africa, which is evidenced by Mitochondrial Eve (Humanity’s shared mother). So essentially we all, regardless of your sub-race (Black, White, Hispanic, Asian…etc. I will from here on out refer to racial labels as sub-race considering we are all of the Human Race), are Africans! I believe this is an exciting illumination on the Human Family that we are all a part of! However, I can’t blame anyone who doesn’t share in the enthusiasm considering the ubiquitous racial fetishism that infests this country and the world. This is why a new paradigm in education is required to quash racial fetishism entirely.
Setting aside the fossil record being evidence of our shared ancestry, one doesn’t have look no further than our own DNA! Genetically, there is nothing vastly different between white DNA and black DNA, other than the obvious superficial qualities. If black and white DNA differed even by half a percent than we would not have bi-racial offspring such as our President Barrack Obama and a majority of multi-generational Americans who can trace their bloodlines to black, white, Asian, Native American ancestors. The mythology of purity by the racial fetishists is simply that, a myth. Purity of race is nothing more than numbskull romanticism at it’s worst. It’s better not to entertain such hubris but to allow it to die and decay out your mind.
Here is what I propose as a solution to this problem we all face. I propose that in any class or classroom agenda that deals with race will also have an addendum to its curriculum revolving around Evolutionary Theory in conjunction with an emphasis on our shared African origins. What will also follow is teaching Racial Rejectionsim and it’s positive merits. The merits are as follows:
• That no sub-race is superior nor inferior to each other
• Improvement of relations between all Human Beings regardless of the sub race they consider themselves
• Collective cooperation without biasness and prejudice in order to innovate in varying career fields
• The true and absolute desegregation of Human Beings
• The security and safety of all Human Beings being drastically improved
• The equal focus on improving rural, suburban and urban areas due to zero racial favoritism
Positive merits will abound in many areas as well, which are all equally important. Racial recognition will be denounced as an atavistic (primitive) idea that we all need to cast aside in order to progress our society. It will eventually be regarded in the same light as patriarchal attitudes and how we regard racist whites today. It’ll be taught as well that we won’t miss this primitive throwback of an idea due to its divisiveness and the evil it created.
Education remains the key factor in vanquishing the age-old foe of racial fetishism from our collective consciousness. It will indeed be a hard and rocky road for all of us to travel because it does require all of us to destroy the racial ideas we all tend to hold and to situate ourselves into a new way of thinking, of rejecting race entirely in all of it’s forms. The Old Guard racial fetishists will try to continue infecting the younger generation with their primitive ideas, but eventually progress will be victorious.
When you actually think about it, racial fetishism only serves the interests of the elite in power in positive ways. It serves as a function of control over the population by effectively dividing and conquering the People. It creates easy to control groups of people by constantly antagonizing them along racial lines. In other words, they keep the People going for each others throat and they can do what they please with their abuse of power. However, once that leash is severed a true unity of the People will occur destroying the power of the elite.
Racial Rejectionism and What It Means to Be One
Racial Rejectionism will be the main philosophy that governs our understanding of our Human Family. We will no longer be driven by rabid hatred towards each other because of beliefs in silly little racial myths. Instead, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc will view each other as brothers and sisters united by common ancestry and ambition towards true progress of society! We will no longer look down on each other nor blame each other for our failures in life. We will have to actually own up to our mistakes, pick ourselves by our bootstraps and trudge forward to improving our own individual lives.
You, the reader, have gotten this far and are probably still wondering how, with the problem of dealing with others who can’t escape racial fetishism, will you ever be able to reject race? It’s all about will power, the power of simply denying the prominence we place on race and not even recognizing race in any of it’s varying forms. We must reject ALL racial labels on the grounds that since these racial labels we give ourselves are sub-racial in context. Since the term “sub-race” brings forth racist imagery its even more reason to rise above these race labels. We are Humans and we should regard ourselves as such. Anyone who calls you by your race label can and should be regarded as a racist due to the fact that it’s setting you aside as something different from Human. A racial rejectionist remembers, always, that racial fetishism wallows in the filthy dark dungeon of ignorance and not in the brightness of enlightenment. Racial rejectionists also realize that this ideal is the epitome of liberation and progress for all Human Beings!
And if this doesn’t convince you perhaps having a stable country and world appeals to you. Cohesion between the peoples of any country is necessary for it’s economic success and ultimate survival. Once cohesion decays within a country it ends up falling apart. History can attest to this with the fall of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire in it’s beginning required that all newcomers become Romanized (i.e.: learning and adopting the Roman Culture, the language and establishing a Roman identity) in order to stabilize the growing Empire. Once that cohesion died away, so too did the Roman Empire leading to a Dark Age where advancement in technology slowed to a minimum and basic necessities such as sanitation, clean water and an abundance of food was at a minimum that eventually led to plagues. The cohesion of the People is at the very heart of racial rejectionism because it recognizes the need for people to be united and not divided by petty things like race. Once we cast aside the shackles of racial fetishism a Golden Age for Humanity will begin allowing for infinite possibilities!
So lets all be Racial Rejectionists and throw away the bondage racial fetishism places us in! We can no longer be enslaved by such primitive passions if we wish to have a world full of abundance, liberty and peace! It will take time, but eventually we will be victorious!
The case of Paula Deen is based around her use of a derogatory word in the distant past and is today reprimanded harshly for it with her show being pulled and her products being stripped from the shelves of Wal-Mart, while derogatory terms used against whites by blacks is kicked to the curb like a flea ridden, emaciated puppy and forgotten. In addition, terms like “cracker” are not seen as derogatory by the black community, as seen in the testimony of a female witness in the Trayvon Martin case. This kind of hypocrisy and ignorance only leads to more unnecessary racial strife. Why is it okay for one race to be openly and wantonly racist but it’s not okay for the other race to be so? I posit this question to ALL races and no one specific. Every race is guilty of the above so to single out any one race is ridiculous and unjust.
Another example of racial hypocrisy is Jamie Foxx and his comments surrounding his experience of starring in Quentin Tarentinos film D’Jango Unchained, which goes, “I kill all the white people in the movie! How great is that?” Now, think about if a white person said the same thing, but in reference to black people none of us would hear the end of it. We would see Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton coming out and blasting the person who said it while the media dragged that persons name through the mud and rightfully so, because jokes about killing ANY race is disgusting no matter who is making the joke. Period.
Aside from the obvious abhorrence towards Jamie Foxx’s ill-conceived jest, what else is bothersome about this and other racially charged innuendos is that it taps into the racial fetishism that plagues this country. What I mean by “racial fetishism” is two-fold in its definition. First, as in mythological parlance, it’s an item imbued with divine power. This can be seen in how “sacred” race tends to be to some people based on ideas passed down to younger generations backed by no evidence. And second, race is treated as an object of fixation, but instead of sexual joy it’s the elation an individual or group feels for being a part of that race. What positive things does racial fetishism give to the Human Race? Nothing, but negatives like racial nationalism which in turn creates strife amongst Humanity, ignorance and even the worst of all situations; genocide. You don’t have to look hard for examples when you can easily find information on Nazi Germany, the attempted genocide of the Irish (based on the Anglo-Saxon vs. Celts whom were seen as inferior and even sub-human), the Rwandan Genocide, the American Indian War and others. So, to those who believe racial fetishism is harmless, look at these few examples and think more on it. It’s dangerous thinking and it can result in the death of many.
As always, though, the racially minded naysayer will still say that minorities can’t be racist due to the lack of power minorities have (which is contradicted by Obamas rise to power where a majority of minorities voted for him) within the white power structure thus providing no teeth for minority based racism. This is no more than an attempt at justifying racial hatred by minorities for whites in general. There is no rational reason to believe that since one group has no power it’s okay to be ignorant and racist. Will the same be said once the Hispanic population overtakes the white population? Will whites then be excused to be racist dullards? Of course not, we all acknowledge the fact that racism is pure evil. Being a racist dullard is not empowering, but reverting to primitive tribalism. It’s the subversion of rational, logical thought in favor of Neanderthal brutishness.
Solutions, from those who honestly want race relations to be improved and even progress from it’s current stalemate, need to be placed on the table before calling for extreme measures that could result in state sanctioned deaths. We need to find peaceful solutions by all people united in effort. One solution I provide uses science and can be done by everyone. So, ask yourselves, what would YOU propose to do in order to improve and progress race relations peacefully? Think for a moment on that question before reading on.
The Evolution Solution
Since the solidification of the Theory of Evolution into science fact (despite the “theory” moniker, it is backed up by mounting evidence) in the mid-1800’s by Charles Darwin in his groundbreaking work, On the Origins of Species, we have been further enlightened about our origins as a race (the Human Race) outside of conventional religious thought. We now know that not only do we share ancestry with apes, but with all of life! More importantly, though, is our shared ancestry with each other.
All modern humans share their ancestry from Africa, which is evidenced by Mitochondrial Eve (Humanity’s shared mother). So essentially we all, regardless of your sub-race (Black, White, Hispanic, Asian…etc. I will from here on out refer to racial labels as sub-race considering we are all of the Human Race), are Africans! I believe this is an exciting illumination on the Human Family that we are all a part of! However, I can’t blame anyone who doesn’t share in the enthusiasm considering the ubiquitous racial fetishism that infests this country and the world. This is why a new paradigm in education is required to quash racial fetishism entirely.
Setting aside the fossil record being evidence of our shared ancestry, one doesn’t have look no further than our own DNA! Genetically, there is nothing vastly different between white DNA and black DNA, other than the obvious superficial qualities. If black and white DNA differed even by half a percent than we would not have bi-racial offspring such as our President Barrack Obama and a majority of multi-generational Americans who can trace their bloodlines to black, white, Asian, Native American ancestors. The mythology of purity by the racial fetishists is simply that, a myth. Purity of race is nothing more than numbskull romanticism at it’s worst. It’s better not to entertain such hubris but to allow it to die and decay out your mind.
Here is what I propose as a solution to this problem we all face. I propose that in any class or classroom agenda that deals with race will also have an addendum to its curriculum revolving around Evolutionary Theory in conjunction with an emphasis on our shared African origins. What will also follow is teaching Racial Rejectionsim and it’s positive merits. The merits are as follows:
• That no sub-race is superior nor inferior to each other
• Improvement of relations between all Human Beings regardless of the sub race they consider themselves
• Collective cooperation without biasness and prejudice in order to innovate in varying career fields
• The true and absolute desegregation of Human Beings
• The security and safety of all Human Beings being drastically improved
• The equal focus on improving rural, suburban and urban areas due to zero racial favoritism
Positive merits will abound in many areas as well, which are all equally important. Racial recognition will be denounced as an atavistic (primitive) idea that we all need to cast aside in order to progress our society. It will eventually be regarded in the same light as patriarchal attitudes and how we regard racist whites today. It’ll be taught as well that we won’t miss this primitive throwback of an idea due to its divisiveness and the evil it created.
Education remains the key factor in vanquishing the age-old foe of racial fetishism from our collective consciousness. It will indeed be a hard and rocky road for all of us to travel because it does require all of us to destroy the racial ideas we all tend to hold and to situate ourselves into a new way of thinking, of rejecting race entirely in all of it’s forms. The Old Guard racial fetishists will try to continue infecting the younger generation with their primitive ideas, but eventually progress will be victorious.
When you actually think about it, racial fetishism only serves the interests of the elite in power in positive ways. It serves as a function of control over the population by effectively dividing and conquering the People. It creates easy to control groups of people by constantly antagonizing them along racial lines. In other words, they keep the People going for each others throat and they can do what they please with their abuse of power. However, once that leash is severed a true unity of the People will occur destroying the power of the elite.
Racial Rejectionism and What It Means to Be One
Racial Rejectionism will be the main philosophy that governs our understanding of our Human Family. We will no longer be driven by rabid hatred towards each other because of beliefs in silly little racial myths. Instead, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc will view each other as brothers and sisters united by common ancestry and ambition towards true progress of society! We will no longer look down on each other nor blame each other for our failures in life. We will have to actually own up to our mistakes, pick ourselves by our bootstraps and trudge forward to improving our own individual lives.
You, the reader, have gotten this far and are probably still wondering how, with the problem of dealing with others who can’t escape racial fetishism, will you ever be able to reject race? It’s all about will power, the power of simply denying the prominence we place on race and not even recognizing race in any of it’s varying forms. We must reject ALL racial labels on the grounds that since these racial labels we give ourselves are sub-racial in context. Since the term “sub-race” brings forth racist imagery its even more reason to rise above these race labels. We are Humans and we should regard ourselves as such. Anyone who calls you by your race label can and should be regarded as a racist due to the fact that it’s setting you aside as something different from Human. A racial rejectionist remembers, always, that racial fetishism wallows in the filthy dark dungeon of ignorance and not in the brightness of enlightenment. Racial rejectionists also realize that this ideal is the epitome of liberation and progress for all Human Beings!
And if this doesn’t convince you perhaps having a stable country and world appeals to you. Cohesion between the peoples of any country is necessary for it’s economic success and ultimate survival. Once cohesion decays within a country it ends up falling apart. History can attest to this with the fall of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire in it’s beginning required that all newcomers become Romanized (i.e.: learning and adopting the Roman Culture, the language and establishing a Roman identity) in order to stabilize the growing Empire. Once that cohesion died away, so too did the Roman Empire leading to a Dark Age where advancement in technology slowed to a minimum and basic necessities such as sanitation, clean water and an abundance of food was at a minimum that eventually led to plagues. The cohesion of the People is at the very heart of racial rejectionism because it recognizes the need for people to be united and not divided by petty things like race. Once we cast aside the shackles of racial fetishism a Golden Age for Humanity will begin allowing for infinite possibilities!
So lets all be Racial Rejectionists and throw away the bondage racial fetishism places us in! We can no longer be enslaved by such primitive passions if we wish to have a world full of abundance, liberty and peace! It will take time, but eventually we will be victorious!