"race 2 reɪs reɪs nouneach of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics : people of all races, colors, and creeds.• a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group : we Scots were a bloodthirsty race then.• the fact or condition of belonging to such a division or group; the qualities or characteristics associated with this : people of mixed race.• a group or set of people or things with a common feature or features : some male firefighters still regarded women as a race apart.• Biology: a population within a species that is distinct in some way, esp. a subspecies : people have killed so many tigers that two races are probably extinct.• (in nontechnical use) each of the major divisions of living creatures : a member of the human race the race of birds.• poetic/literary a group of people descended from a common ancestor : a prince of the race of Solomon.• archaic ancestry : two coursers of ethereal race. Although ideas of race are centuries old, it was not until the 19th century that attempts to systematize racial divisions were made. Ideas of supposed racial superiority and social Darwinism reached their culmination in Nazi ideology of the 1930s and gave pseudoscientific justification to policies and attitudes of discrimination, exploitation, slavery, and extermination. Theories of race asserting a link between racial type and intelligence are now discredited. Scientifically it is accepted as obvious that there are subdivisions of the human species, but it is also clear that genetic variation between individuals of the same race can be as great as that between members of different races. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (denoting a group with common features): via French from Italian razza, of unknown ultimate origin. USAGE In recent years, the associations of race with the ideologies and theories that grew out of the work of 19th-century anthropologists and physiologists has led to the use of the word race itself becoming problematic. Although still used in general contexts (: race relations,: racial equality), it is now often replaced by other words that are less emotionally charged, such as people(s) or community."Confusion of the word has compounded from the results of modern slavery and the introduction of the evolution theory. Where the Christian runs into usage problems is in the evolutionary sense. The word is meaningless because there is no such thing as the advancing of humanity, either as a part or as a whole. How about the word "racist"? Currently it means to dislike a certain ethnic group and their religious and political views with a certain amount of unfounded bias. Rather than vaguely use the word, we should develop our vocabulary and use words like bigot, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacist, discriminatory and prejudice. I therefore propose a new meaning of the word racist, without any notion of the former. Racist: one who believes human features have resuled from evolution, or more plainly: someone who believes in evolution. My whole point in all of this is that I believe that there is no such thing as modern "race" and because of it, any political platform driven by it is pointless. It would be like saying, "He's the first president with blond hair". The Bible teaches all have done wrong, God created all men equal and salvation is available to all. The only reason there is a problem is because people still think there is a problem. Read the Bible and you will find that no human should ever have hate towards a specific group of people.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28Resources: http://www.bible-truth.org/race.htm http://www.rapidresponsereport.com/briefingpapers/RACISM.pdf http://erlc.com/article/the-bible-speaks-on-race/ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18text-obama.html?pagewanted=all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPby6-uf-s
