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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Wrong Answer, Obama

O.K., Listen up:

"RACE" doesn't really exist. The longer we keep kidding ourselves that it does, the longer racism will exist. No race, no racism.

I learned about racism in Japan. I was discriminated against due to my race there, but the funny thing was that many Japanese discriminated against people who they considered different "races"--Koreans and Chinese--that in America would considered the same race. When I lived in Hongkong I saw the same thing: Chinese considered Japanese to be a different "race".

Clearly race is arbitrary and is clearly decided by the observer. If I decide someone is the same race as I am, they are. If enough people decide that we are all the same race, racism will cease to exist.

Obama, stop recognizing race and racism will cease. You may think I am being too idealistic, but this is the teaching of St. Paul, so if you are a Christian, you need to start thinking like this. In Christ, there is no difference between the any races or nationality: the same Lord is over all.

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