Take your time, I’ll be here. 8-)
Okay, it took me longer to get through with the work associated with moving, and I’m still not entirely finished, but I have some time now to reply, though not completely.
I wonder, first, if you also read my earlier post #54 in this thread.
- There are a lot of fallacies used when people believe or maintain that they are just “neutrally observing” that white people are superior to black people.
- And another factor in those fallacies is that people who believe they are “just making observations” often want to believe that white people are superior to black people. They’re invested in that belief, and if so, their hearts are not right within them, and the “logic” they are using is the fallacy of confirmation bias. They’re not disinterested, but want to see “science” confirm their prejudices. In a Christian sense, that should be the very last possible conclusion, and even then, it should be rejected on the basis of faith. What is the basis for a black person to have a choice over accepting Jesus as his or her Savior, and even to need a Savior, if somehow they are less capable of making choices? And are black people any less valuable to God?
- There is a current of racism that is still not only justifying discrimination against black people, but even defending their enslavement. Those justifications have simply never died, but have survived since the time of slavery. By saying that black people are inferior, or that they didn’t really suffer anything permanent (because no action has ever been taken to truly compensate them for slavery and discrimination), then that is saying that slavery really never did them any harm, and the claim behind that is because they are inferior. To put it another way, there has been racism against them that has been maintained, in an unbroken chain, since slavery. It always blames them, and never acknowledges the harms done to them, including through that unbroken chain of racism.