The danger of judging people by race instead of character
By Michael Hancock | Commentary, Undercurrent Substack
How racial ideology obscures the true nature of humanity—and turns one human family against itself
There are no different races of human beings.
There is one human race.
There are different ethnicities, cultures, nationalities, bloodlines, languages, and shades of skin. These distinctions are real. But they do not divide mankind into separate categories of humanity. They do not tell us who is intelligent, who is honest, who is courageous, who is compassionate, or who is evil.
Skin color is an attribute. It is not an identity. Certainly not a moral one.
Yet much of modern political thought begins with the opposite proposition. It assumes that humanity is divided into distinct racial blocs, each carrying...