Race. It separates people for no reason, but it separates us for ages. As long as we are here, we had a need for separating and putting others into some kind of a group. One of these ideas came around when racism was made, and first ideas about racial discrimination were brought up. But…what really is race? Is it just a made up etiquette that wants to make us discriminate each other for no reason? Who started race discrimination , how and why did it make it into society ? Can we pretend that slave trade never happened? How much impact has it made on the future generations? All these questions and many more came up (or at least should) in many people’s minds, and also in my mind because racial discrimination is something that I personally can not stand.
Here’s how it all started. In the XIX century, European anthropologists started theories about inferior nations, based on their cultural and biological features. Indigenous nations being less educated than ,for example, Europeans, according to them, was linked to them being ,,less intelligent’’. Anthropologists even used Darwin’s theory of evolution to pursue their goal of making more people into thinking that there are worth differences between different skin toned people. Person who tried to confirm their race difference ideas is Samuel Morton. He collected human skulls, and he wasn’t particularly picky about it – some of the skulls that were found were from European people, others were from Mexico, Malaysia etc. The most famous one is of the Irish cannibal , a man sent to prison in Tasmania who ate all the prisoners. A bit horrific, but it’s a fact. Now let’s continue. The procedure that Morton did every time he got a new skull was that he would check out the volume of the skull by filling it up with pepper and then gunpowder. He set up some of the first made basics of racism, and that’s why we can call him a ,, father of scientific racism”.
But why would someone do that? To feel more superior ? To feel powerful? He clearly wanted to present ,, white race ” to the world as something pure or royal. As a more intelligent class of people. But if you get deeper into it, if we are talking about someone’s behavior, that seems not only egotistic, but very non-intelligent. Don’t we have something more underneath that makes us special? Do you need to qualify your skin color to feel like you are someone special and more gifted? No. That would be only very selfish and stupid. An intelligent, loving person doesn’t need to highlight his skin tone and show off how light tanned you are to get a higher status. Imagine if there was no such thing as racial discrimination today and in back in the day. Think of it like this; when you read, you imagine the character slightly as an author tells you to. You’ll think about what he is doing and his persona. The skin color is not important. Maybe he’ll make some decisions that are going to impress you. You’ll remove any chance of not liking him because of his skin color-it just won’t get him any points if you are a normal, non-hateful person. Because no one is born that way , made just to spread hate. The key are people that surround you. Also if you think that your opinion on someone’s look is that important, and you can’t understand that people are amazing just as they are because they are born that way, it may lead to some kind of hate
towards a group of people. When people hate on other people and things in life so much, it mostly replicates how much you still haven’t acquired self-love within your own self. This leads us to Morton having some unresolved issues around self worth himself, that lead to such a strong hate towards different types of people, that he even wanted to prove it in the field of science.
In conclusion, the strongest reason to not judge someone by his skin color is because, (if we put aside highly needed everyday respect towards each other) according to scientific researches, all of us have ancestors that were of various darker skin color, which was a biological adaptation to different circumstances in environment for thousands of years. We all carry tiny parts of data from past civilizations within our DNA. By all means, race no longer has actual meaning and races do not exist. We are all people. Different people. But we share the same fate, we walk the same path of being a human.
