How To Love People, Regardless Of Race, Creed Or Color

Chapter 4 p. 21

At this point it’s important to note that the issue of ethnic humor not being politically correct and the backlash of people thinking our society is overly sensitive are misconceptions. It is the presence of ethnic humor with the absence of social acceptance that is the issue, where humor is used as a tool for dominating or competing with someone of a minority ethnic group. In this case, minority humor is a clearly ignoble advantage for a majority population and one strong motivation to be biased for less capable individuals.

Chapter 6 p. 36

For example, potentially, someone could have 0% melanin to 100% melanin. It would be very accurate when describing someone. If they had 25%, 50% or 75%, it would paint an accurate complexion of someone. In describing water in a glass, half full, one third gone or one-quarter cup communicates a clearer picture. Yet when we refer to humans we use an inaccurate version of red, orange, green and blue. How did this happen?

I think the colorizing process of humans began when we learned to use colors to identify things. We innocently used those colors to describe each other lacking a deeper understanding. With the need for forced labor in the Americas we cemented those raw or naïve references. “Forced labor” played a major role in helping to make Western Europe and America uniquely great and redefining the human race into races of color.

Chapter 13 p. 95

The churches in the African American community also separated church from state, providing a base for ethnically segregated social access (as well as spirituality) for idealistically moral, disciplined and strong-willed individuals of good character. Though most members were also informally biased, the churches allowed it, probably to counter the hypocritical and biased European American churches. Slowly, the number of biased individuals and churches (European American) is decreasing (older members still have their learned bias), since the end of the civil rights era. I believe the inevitable change will come and those religious individuals will provide the greatest value to the American society's quest for a united country, while socially honoring religious freedom more. In the past, however, many African American preachers were concerned most about church fundraising (their churches survival) and the souls of their members.

Chapter 18 p. 133

The research conducted by a geneticist and physicist named James D. Watson and Francis Crick, along with gains achieved by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, with help from other scientists, allowed the first real scientific gains to be made in understanding human biology with the discovery of DNA structure in 1953 (US News and World Report).