There Is No "White Race"

The other day there were horrendous mass-shootings in two mosques in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of at least 49 people. Both of the perpetrators said that they looked up to Donald Trump as a "symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose." I believe that such events make it necessary to clear a few things up.

There is no white race, nor is there a yellow race, a red race, or a black race.

The word "race" comes from a Latin word, radix, meaning "root." The racism that we are so plagued with today is a result of a huge misunderstanding of human history and prehistory. It is due to the idea that originally there were separate and distinct "roots" of humanity, eventually becoming mixed and therefore less "pure," when in fact the opposite is the case.

Humanity, as homo sapiens, has a single root, and it is in Africa. DNA studies prove that we are descended, not only from Africans, but from African Pygmies. From that origin we diverged, not into a variety of roots, but into a variety of branches, due to climate-induced mutations. If you are white, and proud of it, what you are saying is that you are proud of a particular mutation. This mutation in no way changes the fact that we are all sisters and brothers.

For most of my life, I considered myself "white." But DNA shows that I am part Native American (Cherokee, in my case), part Jewish, and 0.6 percent (are you ready?) African Pygmy. All humans are my sisters and brothers.

If you want to be a follower of the ignorant Austrian paper-hanger, Schickelgruber, you can do that. If you want to be a follower of the ignorant American conman, Drumpf, you can do that, too. But don't expect me to accept you as an equal, or debate with you as such. I am 100 percent human, and proud of it.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler.