Racism
Anyone !
Using the distinctions of race separates those of one race from the rest of humanity & that which is common to ALL humanity gets lost in the process. That is, after all, what distinctions do!
One has to rise to the level of ALL humanity to enjoy the brotherhood thereof & NOT sink into the quagmire & machinery of blame, anger, jealousy, despair, victimhood, irresponsibility & lack of dignity which RACISM provides.
I can identify with the problems that mothers & fathers, brothers & sisters, sons & daughters have: their toils, angst, anxiety, pain & suffering as well as joy, exhilaration & happiness. When you separate yourself from me by racial distinctions you cloud my perception so that it's next to impossible to have that experience.
There is a natural tendency in the machinery of the human being to avoid being wrong, to make others wrong & to always be right (or at least not wrong). We're stuck - the machinery is very good at what it does - perhaps only a Zen Master can get around it. Evolution may need another thousand years or so to get rid of this programming & live by the Golden Rule, but by then, evolution will probably have rendered the racial distinctions moot!
I say that it's time to quit using them NOW in our communications. They are really NOT needed. One can cry with deep empathy for the sadness, despair & poverty of other human beings like those whom Hurricane Katrina has made sick & homeless. Let us remember our humanity before we remember our various separateness.
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Amen to that !




I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
...I think that what you refuse to give up is that there must be something special about your race (rather than just being a member of the human race). Furthermore, I suspect that you want to elevate some to special priveleges above others due to perceived grievances in the past; probably more like just a fad surrounding the current president. My definition stands. You even would like to assign criminality to racism - perhaps a hate crime. I would not.
Your foisting beliefs on me are disingenuous in the extreme ... your arguments would be more convincing if you used true sentences. Your definition stands only in the space between your ears.



Well certainly there are experiences that are unique to each race ... to think otherwise is to be childishly idealistic. Sonia Sotomayor talked about some of the experiences that were unique to her... ones that you from a Caucasian culture did not experience. I'm sure that she thinks those are special, just like you think you early experience in Esoterica are special to you.
Btw, there is something about the way you are putting pictures in your comments that is breaking the HTML and making fluid dialogue tedious. Was that intentional?
Well certainly there are experiences that are unique to each race ... to think otherwise is to be childishly idealistic. Sonia Sotomayor talked about some of the experiences that were unique to her... ones that you from a Caucasian culture did not experience. I'm sure that she thinks those are special, just like you think you early experience in Esoterica are special to you.
Btw, there is something about the way you are putting pictures in your comments that is breaking the HTML and making fluid dialogue tedious. Was that intentional?






La Raza ( the Race) is sometimes used to denote people of Chicano (i.e. Mexican American) and Mexican descent and the Hispanic world, as well by mestizos who share Native American or national Hispanic heritage.
The term originated in the 1925 book La Raza Cósmica, which translates to "The Cosmic Race", written by Mexican writer José Vasconcelos. He described La Raza Cosmica as the product of gradual racial mixing that was already underway in the Hispanic world. Vasconcelos believed that eventually all of the people within the Spanish Empire would be completely mixed into a new race.
Hispanic people all around the U.S. have also started using this term to identify themselves. Nonetheless, the term and idea associated with it have been mainly adopted by some Mexican people in the United States to express pride in their nation. In general usage, La Raza implies dignity and pride for these people regarding who they are and their places of origin.
The term is also used by the Hispanic civil rights group known as the National Council of La Raza.



I don't see any pertinence to your patronizing comments re my marriage, so if you have some real point there, you will need to restate it.

Mark, yes i get item 714. Trouble is it is too idealistic. I can agree with you that in the distant future community groups based upon ethnic origin will have no political reason to exist. We have come a long way and have a ways to go yet. But we are not there yet and there is nothing to be gained in terms of that progress to start jeering at those groups now ... and certainly not to call them racist as an excuse to deny their representation on the Supreme Court.





John 13:34-35 (New International Version)
34"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
Now if Jesus Christ was who they say he was, as God, he could have forced the issue without cooperation, presumably; no laws, policemen, no courts, no Congress, no newspapers, no politicians, no special task forces, & no presidents or kings were required. In fact he was speaking to that which was & is inside mankind. I speculate (with some ground) that in the future it will be impossible not to feel an other's pain & state of soul. But, for now on our way to freedom we are allowed to lie & be ugly to each other with the consequences, however, that we get to experience what we have done to each other someday either immediately or otherwise. You may recognize the ugliness as racism or anything else you can perpetrate as evil. The Golden Rule is the way out of racism & most of mankind's problems. It can be in our conversations & in our deeds & penetrate into all parts of our way of life. The core of our freedom is that we can evolve our way out of the ugliness ourselves at least for those of us who want to go in the direction that humanity is going.

The rest of Beck’s comment, asserting that Obama has “deep-seated hatred for white people of the white culture,” should be easy for the President’s defenders to disprove. All they have to do is cite one positive thing Obama has said or written about white culture. Anywhere. Ever
- You are a racist if you argue or educate against a race
- You are a racist if you do not argue or educate for a race





All they have to do is cite one positive thing Obama has said or written about white culture.
A question still remains whether the bold statement points to a truth or not. By my definition, however, such a statement would be racist.



I say that anyone who uses the distinctions of race to gain advantage over another or disadvantage another is a RACIST !






Mark says …
The interesting thing about that is, that in all of it, he is using right there, the very things he is asking to quit doing. He is trying to be right about what he is saying.“I say that it’s time to quit using them NOW in our communications. They are really NOT needed. One can cry with deep empathy for the sadness, despair & poverty of other human beings like those whom Hurricane Katrina has made sick & homeless. Let us remember our humanity before we remember our various separateness.”
LOA, as well as Zen masters, teach us one very important thing … that is, the only way to quit doing something is to do something else. To change you have to do one very specific thing, you have to change … and that always means doing something other than the thing you are doing … always.

In other words, one cannot stop arguing by arguing for stopping arguing.

As Abraham would say, go sit on a beach, watch a sunset, play with a dog, do anything else other than argue about what you want, and then, you will have changed, and so will have your experience.
Life happens, happen with it.


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This is not flotsam mark. This is the one true cure for racism and should be here for others who may happen along. Your way is clearly not working. It would be good for a different opinion, one that does work, to be allowed.

It didn’t say anything, really – besides the already-always Abraham-Esther-LOA propaganda.

I’m saying lose the race distinctions & assume & rise to the levels of HUMAN! You know how to do that – do it NOW as an example in everything you do.


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