While it's a good thing to know one's heritage, I personally am weary of people claiming a people as "their" people - we are one people, the human race.
Some of you may think that is an innocuous term, but then again, some of you didn't have the opportunity to grow up in the deep south of the US and hear how this term is used. The bottom line this so called love of "one's people" has what has sustained racism over the centuries - it is a simple fact of history and can easily be verified that those societies that historically have used terms such as these have been the most racist and have committed the the most heinous racially motivated crimes, etc.(Germany, Japa, Bosnia, etc, etc, ad nauseum)
Why can't people think out of the box for once and why do people have such a hard time recognizing this?
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