Race as a value (#806)

I am uneasy about writing this post as it exposes our perceptions about one another in a way I would never consider enlightened. As you may know I am a big proponent of learning and changing. As to the different races we have within our cultures of humans, I would have thought that the distinctions we previously assumed, before investigation of our differences, would have become more of a similarity realization with the emergence of new technology and science. Our global interactions should have at the least exposed the myth that we are not all the same. However, I am aware of the continuing devaluation of some races over others. Their are pockets of communities and associations that actually to this day refuse to believe what science and environmental paradigms contradict. It is as if another plane of thought has given more value to separating us as to different classes, which is greater than the merging truths do to valuing us as egalitarians. A step to an older time of elitism where the ego of self overruled the obvious instincts we all share. It is disturbing to me that an undercurrent of mindset, in being prejudicial about others, is kept as a unspoken principle for living. Most, of course, will deny when confronted, which according to their actions belie them, that they are anything but believers in equality. How unfortunate it is for us to get at the root of the classification of race concept when very few are honest enough to actually admit it. Race isn't the only category we have problems with, power is another. But for now the idea that we cannot accept our differences as a pleasant diversity, has my attention. The depths at which fear has integrated our psyches is unfortunate and the only way to overcome this learned behaviour of fearing each other is to face it and call it out for what it is.