Monsignor Pope Ping for OSV article.
The Bible says that the race goes not to the swiftest.
In the Authorized Version, the word “race” is used only four times, and each time it’s a reference to a sporting event.
People groups are identified by their ancestry, paternal names, and geographic tribal origins.
The only direct incident of bias based on skin color that I can recollect is in Numbers chapter 12 where Moses’ brother Aaron and sister Miriam plotted against Moses for having married an Ethiopian woman.
If you read the account, it reveals that God has a very dim view of bias based on skin color.
The SOS explains. The woman worked in the vineyards and was darkened by the sun. This made her an exception to the fairer women in the palace, but Solomon found it rather fetching.
Please, scripture completely rejects race identity. There are nations and tribes, not races.
Why the hell is that called racist?
Anytime a White mentions race, or notices race, or thinks of race, or doesn’t think of race, he is immediately called racist.
That’s why.
Be careful.
Those waters can get rough awful fast.
If you all look at Genesis 10 the KJV Holy Bible will tell you all where Noah’s 3 Sons went to re-plentish the earth, Ham went S. and W(Africa).
Pshat interpretations without Jewish teachings and without Hebrew knowledge won't yield correct meaning.
Rashi on 1:5:
I am black but comely, etc.: You, my friends, let me not be light in your eyes even if my husband has left me because of my blackness, for I am black because of the sun’s gaze, but I am comely with the shape of beautiful limbs, and if I am black as the tents of Kedar, which are blackened by the rain, for they are constantly spread out in the deserts, I am easily cleansed to be like the curtains of Solomon.
The allegory is that the congregation of Israel says to the nations: I am black in my deeds, but I am comely in the deeds of my ancestors, and even some of my deeds are comely. If I am guilty of the iniquity of the [Golden] Calf, I can counter it with the merit of the acceptance of the Torah (Song Rabbah). He calls the nations the daughters of Jerusalem because she [Jerusalem] is destined to become the metropolis for them all, as Ezekiel prophesied (16:61): “and I shall give them to you for daughters,” like (Josh. 15:45): “Ekron, with her towns (וּבְנוֹהֶיהָ).”
http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16445/jewish/Chapter-1.htm#v=5&showrashi=true
This is a variant of the danger of “only a literal” interpretation of the Bible and not accounting for metaphor. And choosing the definition of the English word you want.