Why should people be treated differently due to the colour of their skin?

Answer 1

History shows that for various reasons this world has been dominated by the 'White Man'. Human nature also shows that the strong treat the weak unfairly. Minorities suffer discrimination in all walks of life, not that that makes it right, it does not. George Orwell in Animal Farm says that all men are created equal, but some are created more equal than others. It is obvious that as time progresses the place in the world of people of different ethnic makeups is changing. I'm not sure that the colour of a mans skin will one day become no more noticable than the colour of his shoes, but there is progress, slow but sure, it is progress. There is progress, slow but sure, it is progress.

But O! So slowly, the original distinction amongst the civilized, is established in the 3rd Book of Moses

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them fora possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. [LEVITCUS 25:45-46.] they shall be your bondmen for ever: "but" over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

To day this practice of division, is maintained throughout the total of the ci-vil-ized World! Thanks to the divine rite, stemming from The Holy Roman Empire!

Another Answer:

People are treated poorly based on whatever convenient excuse the abuser can find. People are treated poorly because other people feel poorly about themselves, they feel threatened by a cold and uncaring universe and they are frightened. JR in the first answer, who has always been honest and open in his cynicism, ends that answer with an offer of hope and calls this hope progress. JR is correct and there is progress, there are vast amounts of people who recognize that we are all equal under the eyes of God and under the eyes of the law. Recognizing it is not nearly enough, thus the cynicism we find in JR. We must, as the next poster vaguely implies, (or perhaps this poster inferred.), fix our broken souls. We must repair our relationship with the universe and we must recognize that there are universal laws that apply to everyone including God. If they are laws, then they are Universal. The divine right doctrine is not a law it is an illegal usurpation of power and through fraud. The divine right doctrine is predicated on the canard that God chose the King and everyone residing in "his" realm is subject to the King who has been ordained by God. This is a false doctrine, and there are natural rights doctrines, treatise and essays that soundly refute this, and the Declaration of Independence firmly rejects Divine Right doctrine. That the second poster points out this doctrine goes back to Roman Law only shows there weren't just people relying upon the God of Abraham and Moses to assert divine right to rule, there were other charlatans, Roman charlatans relying upon the various gods of their day to assert divine right to rule. The only way people can fall victim to such false notions as Divine Right doctrine is that they have forgotten who they really are, (and perhaps this is what Breez is trying to say, not really sure.) and have forgotten they are subject only to God (and if you don't believe in God you are still subject to...), and the Laws of the Universe. The Laws of the Universe do not recognize positive laws as valid courses of action. While some man made laws may be valid and just, the Universe does not recognize this validity and operates on basic principles that apply to all. It is rare to find a positive law that can operate on this basic principle. Positive laws are man made laws and man is, unlike God, inherently fallible. Man will err and because man will err any laws he creates are subject to doubt. What is the standard to know what is law and what is not law? If the law applies to all of us, then it is law. Gravity, the speed of sound, the speed of light, these are laws that apply to all. Murder, theft, assault and battery, fraud, obstruction of justice, abrogations and derogations of an individuals rights, these are all universal laws that have been broken. Divine Right was a doctrine that willfully broke with the laws of the universe so that certain people might treat others poorly. The only way this doctrine gained any influence is because the people allowed it. The people chose to suffer the indignities, regardless of the color of their skin, people such as serfs, and slaves or "bondmen". To clarify, I do not believe it is Breez's intention to advocate slavery through scriptural quotations, I believe Breez is condemning civilization and blaming this construct for the reason people treat people badly.

Whether that interpretation is true or not is not relevant as blame is irrelevant. We are, far too many of us, very powerful beings with broken souls. We have suffered too many indignities rather than stand tall and assert our right to be who it is we are intended to be, we instead become the perpetrators of suffering showing too little regard for the rights of others, we keep going around and around in circles, more like spirals, spiraling further down, down, down, the dark stairwell on a slippery slope to destruction and despair when we suffer needlessly and cause needless suffering to others. Civilization did not make us evil and we are not evil, we are human and we err. Because we err it is crucial we forgive and forgiveness is divine but even more important than forgiveness we must show each other compassion. There is no need to forgive someone for the color of their skin, there is a need to show compassion to those people who have suffered indignities because of the color of their skin. We must show our brothers and sisters compassion as they struggle to rise up out of the Darwinian genetic cesspool that defines our biology and recognize the consciousness we have, that all of us possess, that can not be found in any biological model or construct, that consciousness that continually reminds us that we are more, far more than our physical bodies. This is a process that takes time, this is a process that has been impeded, not by civilization but by people who have promulgated bad ideas in order to gain unlawfully all that they could have gained lawfully but were too frightened, hurt and confused to see the error in their actions and in their thoughts.

Why are people treated poorly because of the color of their skin? For the same reason they are treated badly because of the station of their wealth, or because of the history of their family, or because the religion they adhere to, people are treated badly, because the abusers have lost their way, and if the abused continue to allow the abuse then they have lost their way as well. If it is true that we are more than our physical bodies, and I challenge anyone to show me physical evidence of consciousness, then what good is the body we inhabit if it is enslaved by others because we so cherished that body so reviled by others we acquiesced to their unlawful usurpations and long train of abuses, just to keep a body alive rather than risk the body to defend our soul. This is what is wrong with us, this is why we hate, and this is why we fear our brothers and sisters as they fear us, because we have favored the flesh over the soul and in doing so we plunder and abuse and break the basic laws of the Universe. But there is progress, we just might make it yet. How Anger Came to I VER-I-U, Land Of My Ancestors

It is written: If You Do Not Learn From History! You are Bound To Have It Repeat On You! This relates how names, effect conditions. in The Petrified Cosmic Image(illusion). The point of The Tale, is about effect of NAMES. I VER-I-U, to day known as Ire-land, and its history, is being used as an historic example of it's Truyh!

I VER-I-U: I am VER (Ancient name for green, as inver-dent) I make yoU green, and to this day; Green, especially Emerald Green is associated with This Land, The Emerald Isle.

I the year 1155, Pope Adrien (only English Pope) of The Church of Rome, gave a bull (Papal document granting divine-rite of land), to the crown of England, This established I VER-I-U as a part of The Holey Sea, to pay Tithe & Offerings to Rome, and taxes to the Crown of England.

The English, taking advantage of this lucrative opportunity, sent an army, and stole the land by force. A catholic priest, named Patric, tagged the island Ire-land: ire: anger. The Angry-land. And this name caused a name for temper, The Irish Temper, The land is yet associated with Green, it is now also associated, and filled with ANGER!

Later, the land was divided; Northern & Southern Ire-land. And that was the beginning of what is now known as "The Irish Trouble". Anger perpetrated in Belfast (bel:beauty. Fast abstinence) was, as its name tels, doubled in Dublin. Divide! The Name; Double The Anger. For it is written, Every kingdom divided against itself, is bought to desolation. [MATTHEW 12:25.]

Between the two world wars, When De Valera (de:To remove, val: Value.Era: ire, anger.) an American Born Irishman, became president of the subservient government of Southern Ire-land, His first act upon taking office: change the name to "The Irish Free State".

The anger started to move out, before WW2 they had received emancipation from the British Government, and the land started to Really Heal. The name was again changed to E-ira (e, out of, ire, anger)

Today, Eira, has the stablest economy in ci-vil-ization, Their reality is completely reversed. Today Descendants of those that departed in the troubled times; are returning to a prospering land; Where once Irish were hired as laborers in England, now English go to E`ira as laborers, to fix, and maintain Eira's streets.

Northan Ire-land on the other hand, still having the same name, yet has the same problems with ANGER!!!!!

300 Years later Pope Alexander VI gave divine-rite of the new world (now North & South America.) to the kings of Spain & Portugal

849 Gregorian years of alien occupation & ANGER for I-VER-I-U! 500 Gregorian years of illegal alien occupation for the indigenous peoples, Columbus Named Indians.

All of this! Courtesy! Of The Church of Rome.

Name something, that! Will be its reality; Change its name, and the reality! Will change.

I! As one of the damaged ones, intend, if it is the Great Spirit's will, that all whom have been victomized; by the divine-rite of Rome! know about the injustice that has been inflicted upon them by divine-rite.

divine-rite: Carnal money making setup, instigated by holy leaders, that has raped The Planet!