Race a broad issue
NEITHER white nor black students in the US are fighting because one or the other does not belong to the species Homo sapiens sapiens.
Neither of them fight because any of them belongs to any sub-race.
The black student does not blame her black skin-colour on the presence of the white student’s white skin colour. And vice versa.
Both black and white students agree that it is impossible to subdivide any of them into distinct race groups even given the fact that there exist between individuals of the same colour pigmentation groups between two to seven thousand genetic variations. Perhaps even up to 10 000 genetic differences, whether these differences are expressed or dormant.
Not even two race groups can be defined. Both groups of students agree that such range of genetic variation presents us with challenges of adaptation and survival.
Both white and black students agree that skin colour is an evolutionary adaptation; nature’s way of discrimination for survival of members of a species.
Both white and black students in the US agree that the amoeba engages discriminatory behaviour in order to survive in an environment that is either too acidic or alkaline.
Both groups of students agree that discriminatory behaviour is biologically predetermined.
Both black and white students in the US agree that they disagree on social, political, ideological, material and economic discriminatory practices. Special is their disagreement where such discriminatory practices are being experienced as unfair and unjust. Whether such unfair discrimination is being experienced in the country as a whole or the microlevel of a university, it may just not be the “racism” as some of us would like it to be.
Application: John to Thabo, “I find your voice very, very irritating and it is not a race thing. I dislike all people with your voice type.
If you think it is because of your skin colour, then good luck with that.
And if you think your skin colour puts you in a separate race category, good luck with that too.
“But also know that between you and Nkosi, there are between 7 000 and 10 000 genetic differences, and that does not put either of you into 10 000 different race groups either.
Oh, and just for fun, I like the eyebrows of Nomsa and Jenny, but royally dislikeVuyelwa’s eyebrows.”
Then, perhaps whatever I say or do will always be construed as racist because the New Right is the Might of Black. Glenville Wyngaard
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