Race, Racism and Common Sense

I had a plan in writing this initially to be short and sweet. Then I thought, well maybe I need to provide some source information. Well, I’m back to short and sweet. At the end you, the reader, should understand why.

 

Race – From an anthropological perspective, there are three major races of mankind. Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. Those are the anthropological (scientific) terms so don’t shoot the messenger. There are specific physical characteristics that identify person that fit those categories. Simple Fact.

 

Racism - There are people of all races that make judgements about people in their own race as well as other races based on those characteristics. Most people I know would say that people that make judgements like that are racists. No matter which race they are in. Simple Truth.

I don’t think that way. I don’t care if you’re black, white, yellow, red, green, polka-dotted. I will make my “judgement” of you based on what’s in your heart and your brain. Are you a caring person? Are you inclined to good or evil? Do you educate yourself? Do you just follow whatever happens to be safe at the time? Are you a critical thinker? Do you read, analyze, question, get information from multiple non-connected resources? Do you question authority while respecting a legitimate authority? Do you learn from your mistakes or those of others?

 

Do you have Common Sense? That’s the bottom line for me.

 

If you want to learn more about the anthropological races I would point you to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page to begin your search.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:

His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,

They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;

I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:

His day is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:

"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;

Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,

Since God is marching on."

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;

He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:

Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!

Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

While God is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,

He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,

So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time

His slave, Our God is marching on.(

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

The Star Spangled Banner (all verses)

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Reading Material

Reading material for Christians and patriots: The Bible,The 5000 Year Leap, by W. Cleon Skousen; Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark Levin, Glenn Beck's Common Sense, by Glenn Beck, The Original Argument by Glenn Beck and Joshua Charles the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.