THE COLOR SPECTRUM
Skin color and racial bias23 total reviews
Comment from visionary1234
I always enjoy your thoughtful writes Marisa! fluid write, as usual - and a few spags, minor stuff:
something as insignificant as skin color.(,) Thereby(thereby) creating societal structures of exclusion and oppression for those not in the privileged group. (sentence fragment - join it to the first part and you'll be fine)
placement of inverted commas below, also upper case to start the quote -
"the(The) genetic variants affecting skin color and facial features are essentially meaningless (")they probably involve a few hundred of the billions of nucleotides in a person's DNA. Yet societies have built elaborate systems of privilege and control on these insignificant genetic differences." ("The Genetic Archaeology of Race," published in the Atlantic Monthly, Steve Olson)
All humans share the same DNA and it is not qualified or quantified by the color of one's skin. - to what does 'it' refer? DNA?
and out-in-out(out-and-out) genocide
they were/are of white Anglo-Saxon decent(descent).
When will we ever learn that diversity is our strength not our weakness(?)
Bravo - as always! :)S
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reply by the author on 01-Apr-2013
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I always enjoy your thoughtful writes Marisa! fluid write, as usual - and a few spags, minor stuff:
something as insignificant as skin color.(,) Thereby(thereby) creating societal structures of exclusion and oppression for those not in the privileged group. (sentence fragment - join it to the first part and you'll be fine)
placement of inverted commas below, also upper case to start the quote -
"the(The) genetic variants affecting skin color and facial features are essentially meaningless (")they probably involve a few hundred of the billions of nucleotides in a person's DNA. Yet societies have built elaborate systems of privilege and control on these insignificant genetic differences." ("The Genetic Archaeology of Race," published in the Atlantic Monthly, Steve Olson)
All humans share the same DNA and it is not qualified or quantified by the color of one's skin. - to what does 'it' refer? DNA?
and out-in-out(out-and-out) genocide
they were/are of white Anglo-Saxon decent(descent).
When will we ever learn that diversity is our strength not our weakness(?)
Bravo - as always! :)S
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Comment Written 01-Apr-2013
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2013
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Thanks so much for the read and kind comments. I have gone back and made the necessary edits and I appreciate your assistance, as always.
Comment from mauial
Yes we do share the same dna no matter where we are from. I don't need scientific evidence to tell me that. The most reliable source is from the Creator's word. The thing is man has dominated man to his ruin, just as Solomon wrote. Man was never meant to rule other men, period. Do you think if somehow the darker races of people had the upper hand things would be different? I think not.
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reply by the author on 01-Apr-2013
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Yes we do share the same dna no matter where we are from. I don't need scientific evidence to tell me that. The most reliable source is from the Creator's word. The thing is man has dominated man to his ruin, just as Solomon wrote. Man was never meant to rule other men, period. Do you think if somehow the darker races of people had the upper hand things would be different? I think not.
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Comment Written 31-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2013
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I thank you Al for your read and your comments.
I have no idea if darker races would be anymore benevolent as a dominant group or not. Injustice is injustice and either way I would have to speak up when I saw it, no matter what part of the color spectrum it came from.
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I agree injustice is injustice. But there will never be true justice as long as man is in charge, over 6,000 years of man rule is proof enough for me. So my hope rests in God's Kingdom not man :)
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I do respect where your hope rests, but, again, I think even God expects us to do more than just fall back on scripture. I believe speaking out and standing up; just getting into the fray is extremely important. While we are here we can and do make a difference. Mother Teresa proved this unequivocally through example. We would all do well to follow her example.
Comment from EMB
This is some excellent information, my friend. So many don't really understand this version of where the different races and skin color come from, but you explain it most effectively. Unfortunately, ignorance is often self-inflicted and inexcusable, which means that this work will probably fall on many a deaf ear.
Well done.
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2013
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This is some excellent information, my friend. So many don't really understand this version of where the different races and skin color come from, but you explain it most effectively. Unfortunately, ignorance is often self-inflicted and inexcusable, which means that this work will probably fall on many a deaf ear.
Well done.
Comment Written 31-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2013
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Edward,
Thank you so much for your review and generous rating of this piece.
I do fully realize that there are those that will never accept any reasonable explanation, because they just choose not to.
I suppose, in away, these kinds of writes are for my personal therapeutic benefit. I just need to vent my frustration with blind ignorance now and again.
I do thank you for taking time to read this piece.