Race, Racism,
Racist, Racial, Racialism, Racialist
The
Noah Webster Dictionary of the English Language 1888 defines the word
“race” as:
“1. The descendants of a common
ancestor; a family, a tribe, people, or a nation, believed or presumed to
belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.”
It
then goes on to provide examples of several divisions of the various races, or
how some have determined why these various divisions of the races do exist.
The
word “racist” does not exist in the 1888 dictionary. However, the word racist
does exist in our much newer American Heritage Dictionary 1991. It appears that
the word racist is a rather new word that has also been provided with a
new definition for use in the English language.
Black’s
Law Dictionary,
sixth edition, defines the word “race” as:
“An ethnical stock; a great division
of mankind having in common certain distinguishing physical peculiarities
constituting a comprehensive class appearing to be derived from a distinct
primitive source. A tribal or national stock; a
division or subdivision of one of the great racial stocks of mankind
distinguished by minor peculiarities.”
The
American Heritage Dictionary 1991 defines the word “racism” as:
“1. The belief that race accounts for difference in human
character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.”
(Emphasis mine).
“2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race, -
racist.”
It
is interesting to see that this definition (as is now used in many newer
English dictionaries) has been designed to place the word “racism” into
a negative connotation by the addition and wording of the phrase “…and that
a particular race is superior to others” and also by the definition of item
“2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.”
Unfortunately
such a definition makes no account or provisions for someone who may believe
that there are indeed differences among the various races on the globe, but do
not believe that “a particular race is superior to another.”
It
is not really that difficult by simple observation, or by using modern
scientific genotypes to come to the conclusion that there are indeed
differences among the various races on the globe, and that these differences do
contribute to character, ability, physical features, skin color, or a multitude
of other variations that form distinct differences among the various races on
the globe, none of which have anything to do with the modern definitions of “racism,
racist, or prejudice” or that these observable differences would
automatically lead to the conclusion that “a particular race is superior to
another.”
It
is a fact that all men are not in any way “created equal,” but that all
men (I am using the term “men” collectively) are without exception different
and not at all created to be equal, or they would have been. All men are
“equal” only by the expressed application of civil or moral laws, since those
laws are adapted by public consent as a National standard. (For example, the unanimous
Declaration of the 13 united States of America, July 4, 1776).
The
Creator of the universe did in fact form and create the various races on the
globe to be different by intent and design, as were all other living things.
All of His creation was at their beginning considered to be “good,”
(Genesis 1:21). This being the truth, would the Creator himself be a “racist”
if by His design the races were not intended to be the same, but expressly
designed to be different?
Racialism:
“1.
A variant of racism, racist.”
The
American Heritage Dictionary 1991 defines the word “racial”
as:
“1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races.”
“2. Arising from or based on differences among racial groups; racial
conflicts; racial discrimination, - racially.”
The Webster’s
new universal Dictionary, 1965 defines the word “racial” as:
“1. Of or pertaining to race, family, or descent; of or
pertaining to the races of mankind; ethnological.”
Apparently
by these definitions there appears to be some recognition that the word “racial”
does accept that there may be certain characteristics of the various races on
the globe.
We
agree with the definition the word “racial” as defined by The American
Heritage Dictionaries and others that recognize that there are indeed various
characteristics among the races as well as other distinctive features, which is
quite easy to observe, none of which have anything to do with, or which would
lead to the conclusion that “one particular race is superior to another.”
The
American Heritage Dictionary 1991 defines “ist” as:
“A noun suffix meaning one who practices or is occupied with, or a
believer in, as in evangelist, pianist, abolitionist, and
theorist.” To which we will now add, the words theologist,
and racialist.
The
word “racialist” is therefore accurately defined as:
One
who believes that various races of man-kind do and have always existed on the
globe from the beginning of its Creation, and that the races were specifically
designed by their Creator to be different. The difference among the various
racial groups begins with their Creator and involves origin, descent, tribal
and family genotype; that ethnologically and these physical differences may
contribute to character or a multitude of other variations and distinctions
among them. Yet, none of these differences have anything to do with the modern
definition of “racism, racist” or “prejudice” or that the racial
differences should always lead to the conclusion that “one particular race
is superior to another.”
If
you believe that there are in fact various “races” on this globe, and that all
do NOT originate come from one original, or are of the same “stock” or branch
of people, that one race was not created to be superior to the others but that
all are in fact created to be different, you are NOT a “racist” you are
actually a “racialist”
Yes,
there is a big difference between the two terms so let’s make others aware of
the difference. Don’t let the liberal frame of mind label you a racist just
because you believe that the Creator did in fact create the various races to be
different. More often, the one labeling another as a racist is really the one
that is the racist.
Assembly of
Yahweh, Cascade