When God created Adam and Eve, we were never informed the color of the first man and woman.  If God was interested in color, He could have spoken it into existence in the beginning.  Indeed, it can be assumed without contradiction that Adam and Eve were of the same color and genetic composition.  God simply created human beings in His own image.  Over time, though, human beings used color to separate those unsure of themselves and used color to, inspite of their seemingly proclaimed high IQ, divided and conquered nations and people.

What is a “race”?  Who created race as a weapon of mass demoralization?  What does race portend for all God’s children?  Where did the human races come from? 

According to the Bible, all human beings on earth today descended from Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, but before then, from Adam and Eve (Genesis 1 – 11).  The bible used race interchangeably with congregation of tribes not color.  Today, however, the world has many different groups, often called "races," with what seem to be greatly differing features, the most obvious of which is color.

The Bible informs us on how the population that descended from Noah had one language.  The bible also states that Noah’s family lived in one place but disobeyed God's command to "fill the earth" (Genesis 9:1, 11:14).  When the people started building a tower to reach God and determine who God really was, He (God) confused their language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups which scattered over the then limited earth.  Modern genetics has proven that, following such a break-up of a population and adaptation to new environments for survival, variations in skin color, for example, is capable of evolving within only a few generations. 

Race or tribe is central to the political fabric of so many nations and it sends paroxysms of rage on each side for those on the receiving end of racism.  In the United States the salience of race, developed through the historically central white/black conflict, is manifest in all aspects of social life and political institutions.  Today, everyone uses race, tribe, IQ measure, etc. when it favors them. 

Because of interbreeding that has taken place between people, we now observe that the biological differences between the races are not very great, thus, making differences trivial in pursuit of which race is smarter or better at development.  Perhaps, it can be said that due to several decades of interbreeding, the DNA of any two individuals in the world may differ by about 0.20 percent^1,3.  For better traction on work in progress, anthropologists often classify people into a small number of main racial groups, such as the Caucasoid (European or "white")²; the Mongoloid which includes the Chinese, Inuit or Eskimo and Native Americans); the Negroid, the black Africans, African-Americans and some Brazilians; and the Australoid, the Australian Aborigines.  In America, the racial construct now involve Latinos, Asians, American Indians, and other populations of color.

For example, even the dumbest person in any race can believe that his race is smarter than other races even when he knows more persons from the other race who are smarter than in his group.  Every race of human beings has shares of highly smart, mediumly smart and extremely dumb members in any matrix of measurement.  In all these differentiations, most human beings know that the separation or the inflection thereof is a mere psychological way of disarming and gaining undue advantage over one another.  It is only when a whole race are psychologically defeated to accepting inferiority or superiority without proof that a complete deed is done. 

Race, tribe, and color when employed to measure performance make such measurement absurd. A comparable dynamic is driving citizens in other parts of the world to see their nations in multi-racial/tribal terms.  For instance, in Nigeria, the Igbos will bring up their ingenuity and labor in any argument to dismantle their opponents within and outside of Nigeria; the Yorubas will bring their entrepreneurship and financial management skills while the Hausas will tend to sell themselves as being better managers (leaders).  Yet, these tribes never see the need to combine each other’s strength to make the nation greater, infact; they sometimes use it to retard each other’s progress.  Concomitantly, many in the developing world are experiencing increasing tribalism, tribalistic activism, extremism coupled with religious violence.  In any society, race and tribe affect party politics and elections, social movements, group consciousness, poverty policy, group conflict and prejudice, political representation and in some developing democracy, they affect how treasure looters share stolen loots. 

Believing that race, or interchangeably, color has anything to do with smartness and invoking high IQ as a measure of smartness is not only moronic, it is criminal.  I know many smart White, Blacks, Chinese, etc. and at the same time, I know so many dumb Whites, Blacks, Chinese, etc.  To question human coloration is to question God’s wisdom in allowing human beings and animals to adapt to their environment.  Afterall, the chameleon changes color to survive in its environment and to deceive its enemies.  A person that uses color to judge human being is simply ignorant and lack wisdom of judgment.  Any vituperations on color are simply incendiary remarks meant to cause distrust and to gain undue advantage.

Why does race, color, religion or tribes sip into politics and infrastructural and human development?  How does it help or destroy a people trying to organize?  How can electorates decipher the good role of race/tribe and religion and their sinister roles?  What can we learn from racial or tribal transformation in the U.S. in particular and the world in general about political changes? 

Race, tribe, ethnicity entered into politics primarily to facilitate communication, develop a cohesive group for development and to help bring about peace and tranquility in human polity.  In America, race has been shaped by political institutions since the seventeenth century.  Today as much as ever, US society is fundamentally marked by racial inequality.  That race continues to be intertwined and it is symptomatic of a larger societal problem.  Racial politics, past and present: the way individualism and environmentalism have alternated as influential ideologies; the paradoxical effects of geographical concentration on the political representation of subordinate groups; and the problem of unified group interests in a liberal democracy must be attended to with a view to reducing tension between whites and other colored citizens.  Even in the year 2008, race politics is raring its ugly head but in a subtle manner.  Such opportune race politics is surfacing in the Democratic contest because the two candidates are perceived to be equally matched and there is a need to gain undue advantage.  In other parts of the world that are perceived to be racially homogenous, tribal consciousness becomes an overriding influence in politics. 

Religion more than race/tribe is most polarizing in politics.  With race/tribe, one can point to, at least, an individual or sets of individuals to anchor any displeasure on but religion is a different ball game.  Religion focuses our attention on Jesus for Christians and Mohammed for Muslims.  Pastors do not fail to refocus our attentions on the ball but that does not make our pastors infallible because our pastors are far from being perfect.  For example, my own pastor is one I respect but he does not tell me what to do.

  I do not need to leave the church whenever I disagree with my pastor.  For those saying that the Obamas should have left their church whenever they disagree with a sermon or a new prayer, they must be flaky Christians.  Even Jesus made some remarks that ordinary human being would consider offensive but many still followed Him up till today.  

The late Reverend Jerry Falwell, the well-known fundamentalist Baptist minister, for example, made some pronouncement in his church but none of his later day converts left his church.  He (Falwell) explicitly stated that he established law department in his Liberty University so that he could train future Supreme Court Justices to overturn many of the Supreme Court decisions.  Surprisingly no one questioned his wisdom in creating a university for the sole purpose of overturning Supreme Court decisions nor did any of his followers resign.  Another case in point is Reverend Pat Robertson who asked America to assassinate foreign heads of States contrary to US foreign policy, none of his members resigned.  So, why advise Senator Barack Obama to leave Reverend Jeremiah Wright and/or his church?  Senator Obama cannot control the speech of his mentor just like members could not control Falwell or Robertson. We are now in the season of political double talk.  Is it not better to stay and fight for change from within a system than to bolt out for every disagreement? 

America, the citadel of democracy should be careful not to mix religion with politics because the combination is deadly.  America has enjoyed relative peace and tranquility for so long and should never try combination of religion and politics which many nation states have regretted.  The claimed superiority of one race over another has stifled human, political and infrastructural development of a people that accepted themselves as inferior appellations. It is therefore the role of race/tribe and religion to be surgically employed in politics because they are both potent destroyer of a nation and they bring no relief to any nations that carelessly invoke them.

References

1.  J.C. Gutin, "End of the Rainbow," Discover, November 1994, pp. 71-75; 

2.  However, people inhabiting the Indian subcontinent are mainly Caucasian and their skin color ranges from light brown to quite dark.  Even within Europe, skin color ranges from very pale to brown; and 

  3.  Most of this DNA is in the nucleus of each cell, but some is contained in mitochondria, which are outside the nucleus in the cytoplasm.  Sperm contribute only nuclear DNA when the egg is fertilized.  Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother, via the egg.

Robot  # 1 | 19.03.2008 02:21

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Oghre  # 2 | 19.03.2008 07:03

Good Morning Sir, How can you be so sure there is a God and that he created anyone like Adam and Eve? What empirical evidence have we that there is a something out there that we spend our entire existence glorifying and squandering hard earned cash on its “apostles”? If there is a weapon of mass demoralisation, it is people (mainly Africans) still believing in the religions and movements that were used as a tool to colonise, enslave and dehumanise them. There is no end in sight to this nightmare of our fathers’ religion and what we were brought up with. Like cattle and herd, black people (educated and illiterate) still continue to place all their existence and future on religions and institutions that even the manufacturers have since abandoned. Why are we so afraid? Not surprising that black people are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years. It is unbelievable that it took them this long to fight back. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Christianity the religion that the whites forced upon them? If anything proves there is no God (or sole custodian of man), it is the glaring fact of what society was and still is today. Issues of race are man made and man controlled; the dominant race will always find ways to subjugate other races into submission. If blacks were technologically, economically and socially more advanced than whites they will do exactly the same thing as whites are doing today. It has been proved by the Moors, the Ottoman Empire, the Romans, and the Egyptians. The simple fact is that the issue is not race, it is politically related, and it is an issue of common interests. White people can only identify their community by race, and so they use this to create a political party of “superhuman” races who are bent on controlling the happenings of our civilisation for as long as their power remains. The Asians are fighting that and may very well become superpowers of the earth someday. I wonder then what they will think of other races; after all the Chinese by their sheer technological know-how already think blacks and whites are inferior races! It serves to guide their interests and those of their future generations in their socio-economic and political dealings with the rest of the world. I have talked at length with members of the KKK and Combat18 disguised as a Whiteman, they have all spoken in the same language. It is not that they think ALL blacks are inferior in genes and IQ (although they will like us to believe us to further their cause), they say it to excuse their hatred; it is that we are not as organised, advance in know-how and in many other areas. Supremacists groups are not fighting for gene or IQ reasons; they are fighting to keep their political dominance in a world that is fast running on political correctness. Going by all that, how does the mentality of Reverend Jerry Falwell differ from the reasoning of the author and the rest of many in the black society?

draftman  # 3 | 19.03.2008 13:16

@ author. I wish you've stick to the point instead of referencing or promoting your xtian dogma, not everyone believe in your false book called bible. All the struggle race and religion is about POWER and domination period. From the begining of your "holy"book it was all about european promoting their believe superiority and power. We follow the teaching like sombie, as if to say we get the word directly from God over a dinner. The notion that god choose one religion over the other, and that we know exactly what god want is ridiculous. We are just bunch of mumus, follow-follow, practicing tradetion-meaning pass down to next generation. Most of us are what we are bcus of our parent, but now we are free thinking adult that can question our faith and seek truth critically. We should ask who wrote this book, the bible was written by 70 arrogant, power hungry european men, arguing over what should be include in the book with their race bias and superiority mind. BB was NOT inspire word of god, but inspire word of self serve men, there BIBLE is a MYTH. These men translated the bible from ibru to greek to german to english with all the human falacies and western twist. So many contradiction in the book that it is not credible, While alot of xtian do not like homosexuals, but you bible writer of King James was homosexuals since he was 12yrs old. Your Jesus never says he is your personal saviour, another human invented phrase. This book was used to justify slavery and submission of the slaves by telling them god want them to submit to their master. bb was written 1400 yrs after your Jesus, and it took 300 yrs after for mass production. The book of revelation, the last book was argued about see chap 20 v. 16. Uzabeus who the book even reveal that it is NOT REAL, he wrote the first 50 book at the control of the Roman King. So let's be honest with our self, especially africans, all these faiths are someone ideas to dominate and control others. How can you argue against someone you cannot see, they shape our mind to believe their way and our ways are wrong, and we believe them like mumus. How do we know we are created in god's image, have we seen god? They pimped us and play us like fiddle, but we submit, wake up stop being a follower, don't be afraid to ask critical questions. We reject everything african and embrace everything europeans. Please let me know next time you speak to god, I have load of question to ask him/her or thing I don't know, you don't either. No wuru wuru. It all about P.O.W.E.R and domination.

apanajare  # 4 | 19.03.2008 14:18

My position on issues that relate to the BIBLE is clear - IT IS FRAUD. This is why many are still bounded in its mystery because they have been hoodwinked. Anyone that has any serious issue to discuss should please leave the BIBLE out of it. I am suspicious of religions, but if I have to adopt one, I will trust my own forefathers'. There is no evidence to think that the Christian God is more efficacious than Sango for example. Whereas I can prove that Sango is more efficacious than the Christian God. For example, you can swear falsely with the BIBLE several times over and nothing will happen if you are telling lies. But if you do that with Sango just once, you willl never live to tell the story, because there will never be the second chance. Anyone in doubt? Give me your number and I will make you a believer. Apanajare. "THE MAN DIED IN HIM WHO KEEPS SILENT IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY." - Wole Soyinka

Kurunmi  # 5 | 20.03.2008 04:48

With respect, I could say the logic of "THERE IS NO GOD" stands on the same pedestal with the one of "THERE IS GOD" ,to the extent that there is no empirical proof of both. GOD as known by Africans or Europeans or Americans cannot be seen.Although it would appear that the responses to the article thus far seems to be saying that the author commenced on a falacious note. What I can say he emphasised is the use of religion as a tool for politics and the inherent dangers and not whether there is God or not. My response therefore is that America has come so far and so developed because they have not failed to take on the hard issues and difficult sociological questions.They have not shied away from the questions that we Africans have continued to live with in spite of the consequent social damages-religion, ethnic(you may read racial)labeling etc.We have handled issues of religion and politics with such lack of depth that bothers on the *****ic.We as Africans have handled issues of ethnicity of race in a manner that can even be said to be self distruct. We can refer to the actions taken or not by the Nigerian government with regard to the Shariah Laws in Nothern Nigeria;Ethnic Ugandans and the Asian population thereat;land grabbing from white Zimbabweans and the transfer to blacks. We can go on and on. I do not think we have what to teach America in this regard. Let the debates rage, let the fire of allegations , accusations and counter accusations burn and lick up the retrogressive spirit of supine acquiescence, following such heated encounters, there will surely be a resolution for development and never can be in a resignation to faith in a supernatural determination and ordering of things.

Kurunmi  # 6 | 20.03.2008 04:55

With respect, I could say the logic of "THERE IS NO GOD" stands on the same pedestal with the one of "THERE IS GOD" ,to the extent that there is no empirical proof of both. GOD as known by Africans or Europeans or Americans cannot be seen.Although it would appear that the responses to the article thus far seems to be saying that the author commenced on a falacious note. What I can say he emphasised is the use of religion and race as tools for politics and the inherent dangers, and not whether there is God or not. My response therefore is that America has come so far and so developed because they have not failed to take on the hard issues and difficult sociological questions.They have not shied away from the questions that we Africans have continued to live with, in spite of the consequent social damages religion, ethnic(you may read racial)labeling etc has caused us.We have handled issues of religion and politics with such lack of depth that bothers on the *****ic.We as Africans have handled issues of ethnicity or race in a manner that can even be said to be self distruct. We can refer to the actions taken or not by the Nigerian government with regard to the unconstitutional introduction of Shariah Laws in Nothern Nigeria;Ethnic Ugandans vesus the Asian population thereat;land grabbing from white Zimbabweans and the transfer to blacks. We can go on and on. I do not think we have what to teach America in this regard. Let the debates rage, let the fire of allegations , accusations and counter accusations burn and lick up the retrogressive spirit of supine acquiescence, following such heated encounters, there will surely be a resolution for development and never can be in a resignation to faith in a supernatural determination and ordering of things.