The Temptations have you covered - Ball of ConfusionChairmanOfTheBoard wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:35 pmjhu72 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:36 pm+1ChairmanOfTheBoard wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:24 pm i dont even see race. i think we are all the same; all equal. the human condition.
sure, our ancestors came from different places. for some, that was centuries ago. for others, recent. for some they themselves came from different places.
and those places are fluid. borders change; people move. it's a synthetic construct. heck take poland for example- it entirely shifted to the side.
and when you focus on the seams between such manmade concepts, you realize the absurdity of it all. grouping a people together based on a geographical division. or even pigmentation, surnames, dialects.
forget all that for a moment- we presumably all came from one part of the earth. when there were no borders other than natural. rendering borders meaningless (at some point, at least).
and even if that's wrong- all those lands were connected at some point anyway. sure hominids werent around at the time, but it again shines a light on the artificial boundaries.
not to mention- we here are mostly americans. and our founding charter says we are all equal.
if it were true that borders make people different- than how is it that people within a border can be so different. does the native amazonian have much in common with the coastal white portuguese brazilian? cross that border into peru and i bet the natives have more in common with amazonians than coastal brazilians.
and then you've got mixed ethnicity, emigration, and "self-identification". making this entire race thing an impossibility.
so i just don't see race. we are all the same- homo sapiens. and someone will disagree and say you don't get it. and that's fine.
Jackasses hate this kind of rational thinking ...
thanks 72.
unfortunately at one point im sure i was the irrational jackass (likely more than one!).
the fact is, there's too many men, too many people. making too many problems. and not enough love to go around. we live in the land of confusion.
The lyrics are prescient.....Congratulations