I'm black, but my mom told me the same thing when I was a child. She would tell me that, "One day there won't be any racism, because there will only be one race -- "café au lait".
I guess you could say she was a forward thinker for her day, which would have been mid fifties, to mid sixties.
Having come as far as I have in my lifetime, I now understand that we will have distinct and separate races of humans for centuries to come. There won't be one homogeneous human race, even thousands of years from now. The day my mother dreamed of is in a future so far-flung, we can hardly imagine it from our current vantage point.
What's more important than the blending of skins, is the blending of ideals. The Framers set the pattern for that, over two hundred years ago, but we worthless descendants seem to have still not gotten it.
I can only hope, that in some long distant future, a great gathering of humans will sit down together and come to the conclusion that those men of the 18th century had it right all along.
I suspect that there will always be racism, but the consequences of racism will diminish if people become convinced that if God is Our Father, we human beings are brothers and sisters who owe each other respect and sympathy.
“What’s more important than the blending of skins, is the blending of ideals.
Or at least a universal respect of innocence and individual life. Unfortunately, people always seem to find ways to hate each other, and it is often those geographically closest, and most similar to us that we wind up in conflict with: Native American tribes fighting each other; Conflicts between Asian nations; Conflicts among African nations; all of the wars among neighboring European nations and kingdoms throughout history; Pakistan vs India; etc..
I think the end of all of this has to begin at the level of individuals.
Sometimes the people who wind up hating each other are
Hear! Hear!
I would say we have much less racism today than in the fifties and sixties, at least among whites. It has been a truly radical change in the culture. The problem now is that black culture is dysfunctional and self-sabotaging. We’re going to have racial tension in this country until blacks get their act together and start performing on par with everyone else.
Well said. I’m white but I think the “complete” blending of the races is inevitable. That doesn’t have to come at the expense of marginalization or eliminating whites or white culture or any other race or culture. Whites via the Founding Fathers found a way to bring us all together via a system of government that mandated that men’s rights be respected and protected. After the Civil War, whites realized these Constitutional rights must be universal to truly work. Now, we are apparently moving in the opposite direction where whites are the victim of our own idealistic overreach.