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12 RACE
We really belong to only one race and that is the human race.
No generalizations can be made about race except that different
races have different skin colors and physical attributes. Intelligence,
goodness and badness know no racial boundaries. There is absolutely
no combination of human traits that does not exist in every single
race. Every person of every race has a counterpart in every other
race.
Negative generalized attitudes about race are always false and without
basis. Racial prejudice is nothing more than an attempt by certain
races
to remain in power and to forever racially subordinate other human
beings simply based on their physical attributes.
Any law or any prejudice directed against any race has its basis
in ignorance, fear and the complete disregard of the knowledge that
we are
all at one with God and at one with each other.
We are different because of the societal impact on our lives and
because
of our overall genetic make-up, but we are not different simply
due to our skin color or our physical attributes.
Consider the great burden of social disharmony that will be lifted
from the planet when we truly fail to notice a person's race. Consider
the tremendous wave of peace that will engulf the world when racial
prejudice vanishes.
There can never be peace of any kind as long as we continue to distinguish
people by race, even if only in our minds.
Inner peace comes in knowing that our skin color and our physical
attributes have nothing to do with who we are and that the baseless
racial prejudice that presently exists in the world is disappearing
as we move closer to a world society.
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