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Dec. 27, 2006 After reading column by Jodi Hilton in the 26 December 2006 New York Times dealing with black domestics refusing to work for blacks ,my memory was jogged by an idea I had formed once regarding the origins of racism. For generations races have looked down upon ,mocked, or outright abused other races.The rational in the main was that others were different ,not just on a cultural level, but also on a physiological one. Arabs for generations have used Negros as slaves, shipping them off to their colonies around the world,the Europeans following this practice as they came into contact with them during the 17th century.Prior to this the ancient Greeks had used the Slavic peoples of Thrace to their north as they were considered to be not quite human.The Romans too ever quick to copy the Greeks enslaved whole countries as their conquering armies advanced around the world. Why this belief by some races that others are not quite human?I think the reason is due to fears ;albeit sub-conscious ,of damage,the usurpation , or even the destruction of ones culture and thereby ones safety at the hands of another. A successful people are the result of a culture that works.To make kids obey parents ensures that those who have no experience on how the world works are not allowed to go out and screw things up .Similarly a system of government , through a value system stemming from a set of beliefs, giving equal access to legal process, is leery of a culture having no legal protection for the multitudes. The reason a race is shunned and avoided is the fear engendered that it will contaminate ones own culture thereby weakening it and the collective way of life.Europeans looked down their noses at races which ate with their hands .This had a sound medical basis, although at first they probably did not realize that germs were carried by the hands, and so into the stomach.Cultures that worked survived ,those that did not languished or perished according to the laws of a cultural Darwinism.
Now that the racial element is disappearing ,the
cultural one is left unadorned and undisguised.Blacks
now do not want to work for blacks, not for racial
reasons, but for cultural considerations, as they are
afraid of being abused .They are identifying a culture
phenomena previously submerged by race.The black
culture is less desirable than that of the whites.
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