Q & A On Racism Being Rooted In Economics

A Few Responses To ‘Racism Is More Than A Race Issue, It Is Economic’

The comments based on my initial article on the link between economics and racism has introduced many objections and interesting points that I love.

I thought I would share some more comments, apart from close friends, and the replies I gave. I have replaced the names of those that replied with question marks.

Objection 1:

The article is good. But conclusion looks naive like get better elbowing skills. It is known that following the system rules could not change the system.

Response: Thanks for your comment ?, but soft skills are actually not part of the system rules- if it was, it would already be pushed and we would see exponential results. Soft skills help to increase employability, regardless of the industry.

Not only that, more entrepreneurs are created as a result of the soft skills I mentioned.

As a side note- they are more than just ‘elbowing skills’, and that is why they are classed in a category of their own.

Objection 2:

There are differences between races other than skin colour. In Britain, about 20–25% of football players in top teams are black, far higher than the proportion in the population as a whole. That suggests a racial difference. I believe that currently there are no black managers; that suggests racism.

But racism isn’t just about skin colour. 300 years ago in London there was racism against the Huguenots, French Protestants fleeing persecution in France. They were quite as white as the natives. Today there is racism against people from Eastern Europe, economic migrants. On the whole, they are quite as white as the natives.

Response: I doubt that the ability to play sports is a racial difference ?- that is more to do with other factors like fast twitch fibers and in some cases lifestyle choices.

This again, relates to environment, and the genes that were developed as a result of mankind being dispersed around the world. I mentioned in these things in the article.

To elaborate, as humans started to move around the world, we developed different physical attributes, including height, nose and lip sizes, and the list goes on.

Different nations, and even tribes have common features that are, generally, significant to that group of people, because of how they adjusted to their environment.

In the article, I have attached at the end of this post, I mention the book ‘One Race, One Blood’, by Ken Ham which delves deeper into this subject. Again, we are all one race regardless of skin tone, the human race.

We just look different based on the factors I already mentioned. In this context, I do not like the term race as much as I do not like the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’. The article expounds on this point by explain the origins of these words, in relation to people.

A better word, commonly used in social studies like Anthropology, would be ethnos or ethnic groups and people groups. Biologically, no human can have babies with an animal, we are one race.

Unfortunately, the word ‘race’ is so commonly used for people groups, and has been used to promote an illusion of conflict, hierarchy and many other horrible things, throughout human history.

I also said a similar thing in my article, where I mention that there were even Irish and Scottish slaves- connoting that the term ‘white’ is used for more than difference in skin colour.

There is a quote from a performance coach, called Lance Wallnau, which I love, and that is:

‘You can tell the strength of an idea, by the amount of resistance it receives.’

If an idea does not elicit some strong emotional response, then I do not think the subject matter is that important.

I am not interested in just who has similar thoughts or agrees, but the many people that might disagree for various reasons.

I believe that through healthy discussion we learn and grow together. In that way, iron sharpens iron.

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And please find the article that sparked this discussion here: