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There are many words currently in use, that we hear and say so much, their significance gets overstated or understated depending on who is doing the stating and listening. One such word is miseducation. We fail to recognize all the components of society that either add to or subtract from miseducation and all the ways miseducation affects individuals and groups. Likewise, when it comes to “race” and racism, the fundamental and far-reaching impacts are lost in the intentional internal confusions within and without.
Three Concepts of Race We Must Simultaneously Face
1. Race does not exist. No other group of creatures on Earth is referred to by the term “race.” Race is not part of the bio-logical Taxonomy Classification System.
2. Race, if it does exist for humans, is a singular term that applies to all humans belonging to the one and only human race. This is true by virtue of our single point of family origin.
3. Race, as an Eurasian conquest concoction, is now commonly used to group people according to skin color primarily. When skin color is not enough, country of birth and culture are used secondarily and, after that, other factors are used until the desired levels of separation are created in order to justify racism and miseducation behaviors.
Using Discrimination To Understand Discrimination
Whatever understanding we have about
lower self discrimination of any type, we can use that understanding to understand discrimination based on a different category or criteria.
Using the foundation of understanding we already have, we can then make adjustments based on variables between the two types of discrimination such as who carries it out, why, how long, what are the methods and the effects upon their targets/victims, etc. This will help us begin to understand racism by understanding something such as miseducation, sexism, agesim, marital status, or any other type of lower self discrimination.
This is a reintroduction so we can be simultaneously fixed and variable in our understanding of race, racism and miseducation. This will help us learn to make the necessary adjustments to understanding rather than being guided by someone else's overstated or understated
understanding of the causes and effects of race, racism and miseducation.
