There are none.
Just as so called black folks are deeply invested in the erroneous and fictitious label, so are so called white people. In fact it may be much more difficult for them to divest themselves of the lie than it would be for people of color to do so.
You see when and if any person of color that ever figures out that their so called race was created for them and not by them and that the very term itself has all kinds of references and inferences of inferiority interlaced within its framework they may logically decide to step from under the totem of race altogether.
The same does not hold true for the term white. Quite the contrary, its inventor, by that I mean the man who coined the term caucasian, the one and same german who also coined the term negroid, fused all sorts of superior sounding, but equally erroneous qualities about the term and label white.
The ego would almost automatically gravitate towards the loftier, more positive characteristics infused in the latter. However, the term white or caucasian is just as much a lie as the term negroid or black is. A lie by any other name is still a lie. However I can see why it would be hard to step down from that air castle of make believe and ought to be world.
What really amazes me from both sides, if indeed there are sides, is how tightly, with all the opposing empirical evidence, that there is no such thing and white or black people and that the only race is the human race, people still cling to the erroneous, hypothetical, non scientific delusion that one group is better or worse than the other.
To believe that with no investigation is a virulent form of outright self deception or intellectual cowardice, take your pick.
Namaska, to all that it fits.
Aaron (Al) Lewis
That is just as true for some redneck screaming he is superior because of Henry Ford's achievements with the assembly line as a negro screaming he is superior because Imhotep designed a pyramid. Neither has any claim to the respective achievements or any connection to the person who did his or her thing. That is trying to live vicariously through someone else and I don't care how you try to justify it, it is what it is.
So I ask why is it then necessary or is doing that too just a function of the ego that wants to think of itself as superior? In other words if I have to look to the accomplishment of someone other than myself to feel good about myself doesn't that indicate that I didn't think to well of myself in the first place? That goes for both camps, and again if indeed there are two camps.
You know what? I think that perhaps over the centuries some people figured out that to keep those at the bottom of the totem, both poor and powerless so called black people and so called white people, they needed something to occupy their crippled egos, so they introduced the concept of race and because both groups were so needy that the obsession has grown way out of proportion every since. Think about that deeply. It means what it implies.
Now just think if they can take a complete lie, an utter falsehood with no, not an scintilla of scientific basis or fact, and have your ass dancing your particular jigs around who believe you are, what else have they done to your minds and brains?
Nov 23, 2010
E Donelson II
Nov 23, 2010