From: "Rodney Coates" To: "coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu" , "Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com" Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 15:05:40 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Re: Declaration of Independence in Black On 19 Jun 1996 16:56:00 GMT, Don R. Calkins wrote: >> it becomes incumbent for that people to understand its vital interests lie >> in self-preservation, self assurance, self-defense, and self-actualization. > >I find it interesting that this is the same attitude that led to the >injustices you decry. > >The race issue will continue to exist so long as there are people who define >their reality in terms of physical differences arising from an >inconsequential proportion of our DNA. > >The answer to most of man's problem's will be realized as we learn to see >ourselves not in terms of the accidents of our physical birth, but in terms >our spiritual reality, human beings created in the image of God. > >Race Unity pages - http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/race.html > >Don C > > > >"Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should >exalt himself over the other." - Baha'u'llah But unfortunately, race does matter...racial crimes do occur, race hatred is a reality...later..rodney c..