Feb 16th, 2022: Fighting Against Racism?

 



This picture is from a test sent to parents in the public school system in Manhattan, NY. They had to put themselves into one of the categories which they thought described them the best.
 
 

I am baffled because I am not sure how it is going to help anyone to overcome their racism by doing this exercise? It might create the opposite response. I am concerned about the lack of wisdom behind this attempt. Some white folks are racist ones in the world.  Some Asian folks are guilty of prejudice as well. Should I try to create The 8 Yellow Identities?

Yellow Supremacist: Math

Yellow Voyeurism: Karaoke and Dancing

Yellow Privilege: Music

Yellow Benefit: Business

Yellow Confessional: Sports (Basket Ball Especially)

Yellow Critical: Mixed Marriages

Yellow Traitor: Mother Tongue Deficiency

Yellow Abolitionist: Diet (No More Noodle Dishes)

OK, now it is your turn to create your own 8 identities for your roots. You might want to ask which one is my Yellow Identity? Maybe all 8 :).

John 7: 24

"Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly."

Deuteronomy 10: 17-35

"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.  Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.  He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky."


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