Of Race &
Rubric
by
H. Kent Craig
©1998
When whatever God you do or don't believe in created humankind in whatever image you do or don't like, He created just one person initially. And from whatever belief system you may or may not have, as humankind became fruitful and multiplied, the resulting foresting population of humans came from a single first pair of seed-beings, from which all other humans arose. It was into these clay shells that God put what we know as human souls. Not clay shells of one skin tone, one set of predominant facial and hair features, not one height and weight set, not one set of preferences of certain foods but not others.
In my mind, there are no such things as "races" of humankind. There is not a genus called "man" and separate species further down the evolutionary tree called "caucasian" and "negroid" and "aboriginal" etcetera, there is but one specie of humankind, and it is called human. If a member one race could not give it's very life's blood to another member of a different race who had a matching blood type, all races having all blood types in their mix, if a member of one race could not marry and have offspring within a union of the opposite sex of a different race, if a member of one race couldn't as a gift of ultimate selfless love donate an organ to another member of a totally distinct race in order that it's brethren or sistren should survive a while longer with quality in this life, if none of the above was true, then possibly I might rethink my position about their being one true race, the race of humankind, but all of the above is true.
But when all that separates the so-called "races" are literally skin-deep differences in outer flesh pigmentation, are very minor cosmetic differences in facial features, and a very real and deep primal instincts to genetically survive as evidenced by a tribal ethic in behavior, then I say to anyone who hates anyone else for cosmetic or tribal differences that they simply need to grow up, to embrace their own humanity. Don't get me wrong on the latter of the differences; as part of the human ego, tribal loyalties, the loyalty one instinctively feels towards one's immediate family and visa vis' extended family(ies) of community, state, nation, or even favorite self-chosen sports team, are very real and very powerful, but that said, tribes are still not races.
As we begin the embrace the coming new Millennium, there seems to be a burgeoning rebirth of spiritual awareness. Into this rebirth of awareness of universal truths is this clawing, nagging, itching realization that when God created humankind in His image, He was lazy a bit, that for His own convenience He made a "one-soul-fits-all-so-called-races" size of eternal being, so that when we are born into this life, no matter what size, shape, color, or texture of vessel we happen to pop into to, our soul will fit perfectly inside it, and will remain comfortably so until it's our time to leave it. Those who can see the human energy field, whether they call it one's aura or whatever, know that while every leakage pattern of human energy is unique and different from every human being, that they still are all the same too, that it's obvious to the proverbial blindman that they all come from one source, from one Creator.
In the end, even if, especially if, you honestly feel there are basic, fundamental tribal differences between you and other human beings who don't look or act or dress like you do, differences so great as to give you pause to make yourself feel any better or any lesser to them just because of peripheral differences, you have to ask yourself the following: if you came upon a tragic scene of a burning house, where a mother horribly scarred by flames and fire and near-death from her burns, was holding her also charred and burned and apparently lifeless infant in her arms as she cried and prayed for her baby to live, would not your first instinct be to rush to her and her lifeless child, to try to give first-aid and succor to them both, to try to revive the lifeless little body which represents the future of us all, to bind and heal the mother's burns so that she might live, without first thinking if she's white, black, yellow, red, or any other false race or non-preferred tribal member that you don't like?
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