There is but one race, the human race. However, throughout history allover the world the human race has divided itself into separate groups: gender, color, religion, nationality, and sexual preference. One important trait that all mankind of shares is that we are all human.
Society uses the perception that individuals are different because of the color of their skin but in reality we are actually more the same than we are different. This reality is discussed in a 2003 November article of Scientific American titled “Does Race Exist?” The article concluded, “Two people of different ‘races’ can share more genetic similarity than two of the same race.” The perception of race as defined by the color of skin is unfounded. The color of an individuals skin is relative to ancestral home’s distance from the equator. Those who developed in countries closer to the equator have darker skin color and those in countries farther away have lighter skin color. Though I support the finding I’m not quite sure I want to share the same jeans as George Bush, who proves that the argument that one race is better than another is false. As Rep. Charles Rangle said when asked about the president, “he has shattered the myth of
white supremacy once and for all.”
Mankind defines humanity as collective and the quality of being humane. It seems that society has forgotten this defining aspect of humanity. Society categorizes people and determines how it treats individuals through trivial differences. For example women are give lower pay because they are considered unsuitable for certain jobs. We should have ha d an African- American president long ago. Protestant and Catholic are both part of the Christian faith and yet centuries ago they fought each other and called it a crusade, the Sunni and Shia are both apart of the Muslim religion but shed each others blood under the name of a Jihad, and here in America teens from the same neighborhoods senselessly kill each other over trivial differences like the color of a shirt. When Mankind establishes differences between individuals and divides itself it loses its quality of being humane.
As long as the human race sees with eyes of judgment and lives with hearts filled with prejudice, civilization will never achieve its full potential. Humanity will never accomplish fully, all that is possible. Humanity’s conviction is that no matter who you are, or where you are from , everyone shares basic needs, desires, and emotions. If each man and woman could understand that every other human shares the same sorrows, joys, base temptations, heartaches, and remorse as their own, how much kinder, gentler he would be.
In order for mankind to reach its full potential society must throw aside all of its barriers that separate individuals into groups. Mankind must no longer identify ourselves by labels such as black or white, American or Mexican, Christian or Muslim, and unite as one body working together. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are a ocean.
