{"id":246862,"date":"2020-06-26T05:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=246862"},"modified":"2020-06-26T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:26:24","slug":"nobody-is-colored-yellow-black-or-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/nobody-is-colored-yellow-black-or-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153colored\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yellow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153black\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white\u00e2\u20ac\u009d."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We all descended from Africa<\/a>. Study Lucy<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mother\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of mankind, ~3 million years ago (first discovered in Ethiopia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All humans (we are all Homo sapiens<\/a>)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d the wise (sapiens). We are all \u00e2\u20ac\u0153homo<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d hominids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The root of mankind <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Certainly the root of mankind is Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyone who believes otherwise takes religion literally, and cannot be trusted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man’s Place in Nature<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, anyone who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe in evolution cannot be trusted when it comes to matters on race<\/a>, ethnicity, morphology<\/a>, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us be very careful with words <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When you call someone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153colored\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153black\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yellow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153red\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153orange\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153purple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, whatever … intrinsic in the language is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other, strange, foreign, bad, evil, cannot be trusted, lesser\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you call someone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white\u00e2\u20ac\u009d inherent are notions of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153goodness, purity, chosen, superior\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Human skeleton vs gorilla skeleton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What do we want the future to look like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Selfie<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future should be a future in which perseverance, hard work, courage, bravery, and industry is rewarded, not race, class, ethnicity, gender, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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We all descended from Africa. Study Lucy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mother\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of mankind, ~3 million years ago (first discovered in Ethiopia). All humans (we are all Homo sapiens)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d the wise (sapiens). We are all \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/899053B9-A783-4944-B584-D45FF1550568.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246862"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246895,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246862\/revisions\/246895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}