Your Racial Identity Is Christian Theology.

The Christian Origins of Racial Identity.

“The reason you call me Black is because you think you’re White.” — James Baldwin.

The science of anthropology is the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution. This science designates race for classification in the study of bone mass, density, skull shape, vertebrae, and other corresponding features associated with the location of discovered human remains. That is the proper placement for the term “race” within the context of racial science: the study of migration patterns and the corresponding development of adaptive human physiology for survival against the natural elements.

This is the science that tells us about our human evolution throughout the globe.

The concept of race, however, has been hijacked. It has been stolen from its proper place and turned into something that has little to do with the adaptation and development of human features for survival, that is, all but one prominent feature; skin color.

The feature of skin pigmentation, as we know and relate to it in the modern era of human existence, is what we now consider to be the markers of “race” and “racial.” And in order to extract and secure patterns of wealth, skin color, aka “race,” has been legislated into a social hierarchy: that is, a Racial Hierarchy.

This ‘Racial Hierarchy’ has found false legitimacy through a hegemonic “racial” science:

Following the artificial designation of a “race” called “White people” in 1681, Carl Linnaeus, a Sweedish botanist, known as the father of modern taxonomy, presents the first formal definition of human “races” in modern taxonomic terms in 1758 (in Systema naturae) where he conflates character with anatomy. He proclaimed: “Homo sapiens afer (the African Black), is ruled by caprice; Homo sapiens europaeus (the White European) is ruled by customs.”

The Racial Hierarchy along with the corresponding notions of “white supremacy” and “racial identity,” originate from Christianity. And unawareness of this origin leaves many perplexed as to why a considerable number of Americans who call themselves ‘Christian,’ indulge in dehumanizing attitudes and behaviors. The reason is that Americans, in particular, are led to believe in something that does not exist; racial identity is a figment of imagination. In reality, there is only a Christian identity that is transposed as “racial.”

The Masquerade of Racial Identity.

The papal bulls are edicts formulated by Popes Nicholas V and Alexander VI in the 15th century that instructed how European explorers were to treat Indigenous people:

any non-Christian people “discovered” by European explorers were to be vanquished and subdued. Direct quote: “Subjugated — and brought to the faith.”

“That in our times, especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for, and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.”

These Vatican directives, straight from the hallowed halls of Christianity itself, became the basis for the creation of a Racial Hierarchy social construct and its component language of “race” along with corresponding discriminative legislation. The Papal blessings also led to the subsequent American belief in a ‘Manifest Destiny’ which validated the forced, if not slaughtered, removal of Indigenous people.

This ‘Christianity’ is the foundation of America.

Over 500 years ago, Catholic Popes gave validation to European exploration, discovery, and conquest of far-away lands that were new to the Europeans. These Popes deemed that if the inhabitant natives of these lands were not Christian (which, of course, they were not), then the land could be claimed in the name of God and the Church; all of the non-Christian inhabitants were to be cast as unholy savages and rightfully slaughtered if they did not bow and accept the power and rule of the Church as an unquestioned authority.

If you don’t think this very same fundamental premise is not in use in today’s modern world, think again:

As we continue to expand and acquire knowledge of ourselves in order to navigate our way out of the maze of social dilemmas placed upon us by history, we must push back against the concerted effort to limit and control access to this vital self-knowledge.

Power and control are maintained by manipulating history, and the political movement against “wokeness” represents an attempt to do just that; maintain psychological control over the masses in order to benefit a limited few.

James Baldwin once told an interviewer that “white” is an attitude while “black” is a condition.

The fairy tale of race has driven people to sheer madness as it has justified and sanctioned the butchering of people for wealth extraction with the historical blessings of the Roman Catholic Church. While it can be argued that the position of the Church has changed over time, the fundamental belief of a hierarchy concept that dictates human value remains; it is a construct that can easily transfer to any lifestyle endeavor a political group seeking power may wish to control or eliminate.

If people are made to believe that something has been sanctioned by their God concept, whatever that may be, then there is no limit to the extent of terrorism people will indulge in executing religious directive that has declared “others” as sub-human if not unworthy.

The call here is for critical thinking.

“The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant” — James Baldwin.

Thank you for reading.

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