Why does skin pigment have to cause so many problems?
Melissa asked:
Man, we’re all humans. Lets just go play ‘Ring around the rosie’ with eachother and get onto some more important issues here. It seems that there are a lot of people yapping with not a whole lot to say out there.
Man, we’re all humans. Lets just go play ‘Ring around the rosie’ with eachother and get onto some more important issues here. It seems that there are a lot of people yapping with not a whole lot to say out there.
?_______________- jesse c
because it would be too easy if you didnt have some problems….
hahahaha carleighBUG
“because the WHITE MAN is a FAGGOT”.
- Barack H. Obama. Shero M
Sugar I wouldn’t worry bout ignorance. As we say in the 12 step community LIVE AND LET LIVE. Odell
This stuff is being manipulated by Secret Societies. They are the ones causing the problems. They are taking the third world and dumping them on the white population, that don’t want this on top of them, or their children! Their agenda is to create “white flight.” If you are going to create social problems so it will create a reaction, then you can undrestand why there is racism. I was sexually assulted as a child, for not “playing along” with the Masons racial program. My Blog:
Tell me why this won’t get investigated? crowbar923
We just find excuses to hate each other. dingo1817
Word to that! People always are looking for some reason to spread fear and hate and look for some form of social adhesion or collectiveness. “Hey, you look like me? Well, then let’s form a club (or group or gang or whatever)”
If it not the way someone looks, you always have religion, gender, and culture to use in the similar way.
If we could only get people to focus their energy on something more positive… Brandy
Skin pigment doesn’t cause problems. The meaning and status that people attach to skin pigment is what causes issues. In large-scale societies, people will always find a way to differentiate who is entitled to what resources, and unfortunately, many of these differentiations are determined on the basis of something as superficial as the level of melatonin in one’s skin.
If you are interested in egalitarian societies, read up on hunter-gatherer clans. In a society where survival depends upon everyone’s contribution, people cannot afford to squabble over status. M
Listen to what “CrowBar” is telling you! Pam R
The easy answer is that skin pigment (and I assume you mean skin color) shouldn’t matter. But it does for a number of reasons we attempt to overcome in the name of a higher morality — brotherhood. Skin color means differences, and people who are different can be dangerous to one’s health and well-being. “Other” people represent the unknown, the unpredictable, and therefore, the potentially dangerous.
Think about this. Suppose, instead of welcoming the “white man”, indigenous peoples’f North and South America slaughtered every last one of them? No colonial heritage. No measles, syphylis, small-pox, or intermarriage. We laud the freindliness of the Native Americans who taught the Pilgrims how to raise corn and fed them through the winter, but had these folks made decisions based on skin pigment, they might not be living on reservations now.
Differentiating animals (and that’s what people are after all) by appearance is what makes gazelles and zebras run from lions and, and make love to other gazelles and zebras rather than to each other. It is survival behavior using the organs of sight.
Now, does that mean we should contnue to act like animals in the wild? Beats me. But to say that distinctions made about the safety factor of others based on appearance, age, (Hansel and Gretle got that one wrong!), gender, size, and circumstance of meeting are inherently immoral, stupid, racist etc.—- no can do.
Are we , or will we ever be, post-racial? I don’t think so. People love their identification based on color too much. But we can insure that in civil society we treat everyone fairly, justly and humanely, and get to know individual people so we’re not afraid of them. Jenean M
it doesnt. it’s just an excuse for why people don’t get treated the same. pickedon
It’s just an easy marker that people use to try to separate others into large groups so they can make categorical judgments about those groups. People tend to do that, anyway, and they use skin pigment as an easily visible method to categorize people very quickly. It’s lazy methodology, of course. Vict D