SKIN DEEP
I have a beautiful little girl. She's 9 years old right now. My little girl however is very VERY pale. Compared to her classmates, she is Casper the friendly ghost pale. I mention this because we are HALF Native Canadians. Red Indians for those who don't recognize the term. In my salutations, you saw I refereed to myself as "pink", that's because I'm half red and half white, which in the grand wheel of colour makes pink. In reality, I'm beige.
Anywho, a few weeks back a "black" kid in her class called her a "stupid white girl". Thus my 9yrs first introduction to racism. Bet you thought us being on the "white" end of the spectrum would have initiated the racism. Nope. Weren't me.
So, my daughter was pretty much hurt and sad because of her peers comments, so I thought it was time to introduce my daughter to the...
THE MYTH OF COLOUR
First off folks, I do not believe in any way shape or form that there are different races. I believe that everyone on the planet is ONE race of people, but DIFFERENT Cultures. Race infers evolution. That different races of people evolved at different rates is ridiculous. I firmly believe that we all come from 2 people *Adam and Eve and then from the family line of Noah.
The only physical difference between me and a native born "black" African person is the amount of Melanin in our skin.
I googled these definitions for all of you:
"The actual skin color of different humans is
affected by many substances, although the single most important
substance is the pigment melanin. Melanin is produced within the skin in cells called melanocytes and it is the main determinant of the skin color of darker-skinned humans."
"Melanin: The pigment that gives human skin, hair, and eyes their color. Dark-skinned people have more melanin in their skin than light-skinned people have. Melanin is produced by cells called melanocytes."
Check this Pantone Chart out (click the picture to leave this page and go to the original website) :
This doesn't cover ALL skin types, just the most common. It leaves out Albinos and Melanism. Albinos happen when there is a little to no melanin in the skin cells and Melanism is when there is alot. Most of us are somewhere on that chart.
If you go to Wikipedia, you will find a very long drawn out evolution laden explanation of how we evolved and separate and spread out and separate and branched and banana eating monkeys and more branching and so it's just so confusing... and bully pucky on top of it.
But we didn't. See, the very first (and only) creature to have crawled out of the magically mud puddle that doesn't exist must have held in it's body the blue prints for EVERY living thing on the planet. Evolutionist never address this point. When "it" crawled out of the puddle, did it crawl into a lush green environment? Where did those plants come from? Did it crawl out into a barren wasteland and then fart a seed or two out? And then how did we get here from that single creature? And then, at what intervals did we evolve? Which race came first? The White Chickens or the Black Chickens?
IF we evolved at different times, then logic would dictate that we would be physiologically different but we are not. We all share one of 4 blood types A, B, O, AB.
IF we evolved at different times, then logic would dictate that we would be physiologically different but we are not. We all share one of 4 blood types A, B, O, AB.
We all have similar morphology. 2 eyes, 2 Ears, 1 Nose, 1 Mouth... you get the picture right? I don't need to sing you "Head and shoulders"?
SOME MOTHERS DO HAVE THEM
FROM THE NEW YORK POST:
BLACK PARENTS GIVE BIRTH TO WHITE BABY: When Angela Ihegboro first saw her newborn daughter, she was “speechless.”
“She’s a miracle baby,” the 35-year-old mother said yesterday. “But still, what on Earth happened here?”
What happened is that baby Nmachi is a blond, blue-eyed white baby born to two black Nigerian immigrant parents at a London hospital.
“The first thing I said was, ‘What the flip?’ ” said the father, Ben Ihegboro. “We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages — not saying anything.”
He quickly sought to dispel any speculation.
“Of course she is mine. My wife is true to me,” the 44-year-old customer service adviser said. “Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”
Genetics experts don’t believe in miracles, but they didn’t have any simple answers to the mystery of baby Nmachi. Instead, they offered three theories:
- She’s the result of a gene mutation unique to her. If that is the case, Nmachi would pass the gene to her children — and they, too, would likely be white.
- She’s the product of long-dormant white genes, passed on to her by her parents, that might have been carried by their predecessors for generations without surfacing until now.
- While doctors have said Nmachi is not an outright albino, or lacking in all pigment, they added that the child may have some kind of mutated version of the genetic condition — and that her skin could darken over time.
Catherine and Richard Howarth were convinced they'd been given the wrong child by mistake - their newborn baby boy was white and not dark-skinned as they'd expected. It's an unusual story - but it's not the first time that it's happened. How does this sort of thing occur and why?
His mother probably had a white ancestor
The baby's father Richard is white, but mum Catherine has dark skin from her Nigerian heritage. Genes from one of her ancestors may have lain dormant for generations - until randomly thrown together in the new baby, they brought out traits that had been latent for so long. This is what's known as a genetic/evolutionary throwback, or atavism.
CHECK THIS OUT!!! TWINS!!!
Lucy, Aylmer, with white skin and straight ginger hair, and Maria Aylmer, with her thick curly hair and darker skin, were both born in January 1997.
So in school, classmates had no trouble telling them apart.
Thanks to a rare scientific quirk resulting from their mother and father's mixed-race pairing, they were both born with different coloured skin.
Their mum Donna is half Jamaican while father Vince is white.
But when they heard they were having twins, they could never have guessed that they would produce twins looking so different from each other.
SKIN COLOUR
Combinations of genes thrown up everytime a baby is born means that children,
mixed-race or not can be anywhere on a spectrum between its two parents.
This chart shows how that works with two parents with three white-skin alleles (gene traits), and three black-skin alleles. The use of six gene traits is just an example to show how the mixing can produce many different combinations.
Very few people are 100% black or 100% white
The chart also shows that few people are 100% white-skinned or 100% dark-skinned. The vast majority of people fall on the spectrum in between. But though geneticists understand skin colour that way - it's not how society views skin colour. Socially we tend to put people in much simpler categories: black or white or brown. That means we find it hard to understand natural genetic variation. Throughout history it has been used to justify wars and inequality.Here's a sad story:
The black woman - with white parents
Sandra
Laing was born black, but to white parents. It would have been strange
anywhere - but in apartheid South Africa it was disastrous. Long before science learned to meddle with genes, there was Sandra
Laing. She entered the world in 1955, a beautiful baby by all accounts,
who could be expected to grow up in a close-knit family amid mines of
gold and forests of pine. At the first sight of Sandra no one, not the
nurse, her mother, father or neighbours would admit the obvious. Nature
had played a trick. Abraham and Sannie Laing were white, their parents,
grandparents and great grandparents were white, yet their daughter was
dark. By a biological quirk, the pigment of an unknown black ancestor
had lain dormant for generations and manifested in Sandra. Genetic
throwbacks were not unheard of but if there was ever a wrong place and
wrong time for this phenomenon, it was apartheid South Africa.
Her life is an extraordinary tale of a search for identity in a system built on race and prejudice, where home, school, job and sex life was demarcated by skin colour. Born to a conservative Afrikaner family, Sandra's fate was to not be what she was supposed to be....................To read the rest of her story click: HERE
Her life is an extraordinary tale of a search for identity in a system built on race and prejudice, where home, school, job and sex life was demarcated by skin colour. Born to a conservative Afrikaner family, Sandra's fate was to not be what she was supposed to be....................To read the rest of her story click: HERE
Culture is NOT RACE
CULTURE as defined in the dictionary is:
The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.
Funny, skin colour isn't mention in there. But groups of people are. Defining one's culture nowadays is kind of hard with all this multiculturalism. We've blended so many different rituals, arts, ways of thinking into one big mess and then try to draw from it something distinct.
Here in Canada, I can honestly say that finding something uniquely Canadian is difficult. Off hand, other than saying "sorry" profusely I can't think of anything. If you can, drop us a comment. Most of the things that you would assume are distinctly Canadian have their roots in Europe. As most of Canada was founded by Europeans. I know in my family of origin I have a huge mess going on. There is on one half of my family tree Indians and Scottsmen and the other is Indians and Germans! Lots of fur and plaid.
Live Science has a really great article on Culture that I will let you read by clicking the underlined words in this sentence ;0).
For giggles:
FIRST NATIONS/INDIANS: One tradition would be smudging. That is the burning of tobacco or sage to cleanse the body, mind and spirit. Tobacco is sacred to Indians. It was a gift from the Creator.
CHINESE: Latern Festival
SCOTTISH: HIGHLAND GAMES!!! Need I say more?
GERMAN: Oktoberfest!
AFRICAIAN: Art, music, and oral literature serve to reinforce existing religious and social patterns.
THIS is what makes us DIFFERENT. What we do, what we eat, where we live, art, music, festivals, celebrations. These are to be celebrated. Skin colour not so much.
But of course in today's over sensitive, "I'm a victim" world, we have to minimize all the good things that make us different and try to stuff us all that we are into simple categories: SKIN & GENDER -
Funny, I thought those days ended. But nope, those annoying feminist/liberals are still at it trying to swat down all those white, Anglo-saxon, protestant males for being to rich, to white, and to powerful.
Funny, I thought those days ended. But nope, those annoying feminist/liberals are still at it trying to swat down all those white, Anglo-saxon, protestant males for being to rich, to white, and to powerful.
I heard Lauren Southern speak about this earlier today and thought I'd share with you her YouTube video. It really drives home the point that we are not categories, that we are people who are different on the surface but are very much the same underneath it all.
It's about 6mins. You've come this far... what's 6 mins more.
So here's the POINT:
Skin colour doesn't mean a dadgum thing. Attitude and Character does. If you think just because you are blonde hair, blue eyed, white guy/girl life is going to be peachy, think again. You don't get free pass in life. Hard work takes you places. If your brown hair, brown eyes and brown skin thinking the world isn't meant for you, think again. Hard work and perseverance will go a long, LONG way! Don't fall into the trap that you are what your skin dictates, or who you have sex with, or what gender you are.
Proverbs 24:32-34New International Version (NIV)
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.
You are more than the sum of your parts. You are a image bearer of the most loving creator YHWH. You are made in the image of God. We are ONE RACE, ONE BLOOD, DIFFERENT CULTURES.
Genesis 1:27
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Take the time today to really ponder your how you view the world. Are you adding to the chaos or are you really out there to invoke change. Change can only come when WE THE PEOPLE stop being jerks to everyone and start walking that love walk like Jesus Christ did. If we start to live our lives in the light of Christs love for our fellow man, do you realize the impact we would make? We really could end all wars and there wouldn't be any poor among us.
Race is bull. Unity is what God Designed.
*https://answersingenesis.org/racism/adam-eve-all-skin-tones/
