No matter where you are in the world, at some point or the other you will be accosted with an idea, a thought, a concept or a word that designate a distinction between people either based on race, color, creed, religion or belief. More often than not this serves as signpost of brewing and growing exclusion. At some point in history this was obviously possible and the world was defined in narrow margins called black and white.
We still live in a society that emphasis differences based on intolerance, a righteous determinism that demeans the importance and significance of uniqueness and diversity. People fear that which they do not understand. This shared human trait has been part and parcel of man since the dawn of mankind. History reveals that this control drama of man has taken many shapes and forms since the day of mythical man.
It is practically illegal to be a race, color, creed, religious or philosophical determinist, thus the new battle ground for this fear lies squarely and primarily in the redefinition of human identity. Long gone and distant are the days of an identity or group identity defined by race, color, creed, religion or philosophy. The synthesis, natural evolution, mutation and synergy are to varied and eclectic to still cling to archaic identity of being white, black and.
In the beginning the difference may have been stark and sharp. In time this became an illusion, not that the difference was no illusion in the first place, for we all are human first and foremost. The illusion in the minds of people started taking a knock with the birth of mixed race people. In various parts of the world they are either called colored, mixed, biracial, multicultural, mulatto, multiracial, hapa and; which only reflect cultural, geographic or historical bias. Fortunately the name, word or concept does not matter; the principle is the same, a fusion of people. Get up, and get ready for in the near feature – we will inhabit in world where racial purity will be an anomaly. The human race of the future will be a fusion, a mixture, hopefully just people, beyond identity stereotypes.
>> Ross Rayners <<
2 Comments
This is a very well crafted article. Actually a nice read.
I can’t help but wonder what the author has to say about this.
Dronk-onnie.
The narrow minded stereotypes that have defined us or we have chosen to be identified with has served it’s purpose. It is time for us as coloured people to rise to the occasion and say I am proud of my heritage, my being and my people. With pride we have to accost the world and shout it loud that we no longer subscribe to a narrow minded view of ourself and the world.