Spiderman
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It isn't that one ethnicity is better than the other.The white supremacist believes that people with black skin are less intelligent than people with white skin. For the sake of argument, let's assume he's right and then ask: So what?
Is intelligence a measure of human worth?
If so, in dealing with people individually, how does a white man with a 100 IQ become superior in human value to a black man with a 120 IQ?
Is a retarded white man a worthless human being?
The white supremacist's argument makes no sense even if he's right that people with white skin are, as a group, more intelligent than those with black skin. So, there must be another cause for his racist views.
I think we humans are infected with a need to feel superior to others and racism is just one of many behaviors that we employ to satisfy that need. I think racism, nationalism, religious intolerance and many other forms of bad behavior are caused by the arrogant need to prove ourselves superior to others.
I do daily battle with my arrogance. Racism hasn't been a problem for me but I have a collection of other flaws with the same origin.
I believe people whose ancestors were from Africa, can on average excel better than white people at certain things. I think Asians and Jews can on average out do white people in certain areas. People of European descent excell on average in certain areas.
It doesn't make anybody better than anyone , if one person is more likely to invent something or get a doctorate than another.
As I've said, John the Baptist is one of my favorite people, and he wore camels hair, lived in the wilderness unemployed, off locusts and wild honey.
If he was born in today's world, I highly doubt he would get a doctorate in college, or invent technology, or contributions to modern medicine, or score high on an IQ test. I don't think he was gifted in those areas.
But in my opinion, I consider him a better person than 99.9% of people.
Saint Francis of Assisi, is my confirmation name too, one of my favorite Saints. He was barefoot and wore a Beggars robe, and begged for his meals, not knowing where the next one would come from.
I would do anything to be like him, but I also do not think he was gifted in areas for inventing new things, or getting something like a doctorate in college, if he was born in today's society. That does not make him a lesser of a person.
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