True Equality: The Unifying ‘Field’ That Trumps Race
The Abolitionist Examiner
by Adam Abraham
May/June 2004
Let’s be clear on one thing about race-preference policies and practices today: from the beginning of our country’s history, race has since never not been an issue. Once the low-cost labor force represented by forcibly imported Africans – with their convenient “color-coded” skin and distinctive physical features – became regarded as God-given, and an economic necessity, “race,” as opposed to human beingness, has been a persistent “issue” in America.
By arguing the vagaries of “race” as though they were real, we could sidestep the true realities of what both defines and unites us as human beings. All have a spirit. All have a mind. All have and use thoughts. All choose beliefs. All choose attitudes, positive and negative. All choose, or try to impose, limitations to varying degree. All have the power to transcend limitations, whether self-imposed or otherwise. All learn experientially. All humans want love and respect. All want to feel safe from harm. And when harm happens, the “race” of the perpetrator doesn’t really matter. These are just some of the factors that humans hold in common. The field of the human spirit has always been “level,” and always will be, even if we debate it, or deny it.
This entry also posted at A Mixed Blog.