The Meaning and Significance of Race
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 7 February 2001
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here we are at a session four of a seminar on racial harmony, and I hope it's being recorded because all the people that want to hear this aren't able to be here tonight, and I want feedback from them. |
| 0:19.2 | All humans are of one origin by divine design, the meaning and significance of race, part two. |
| 0:27.2 | Now, let me tell you what happened at the end of part one that caused me to do this for part two. |
| 0:34.9 | When I was done, what's this two weeks weeks ago or so, you remember I argued that the biologically race is negligible, it's just not significant. |
| 0:48.9 | I gave you statistics about the difference in chromosonal makeup, you know, within a race is bigger than between races, typically. |
| 0:59.0 | And so if you're looking for a, you know, a liver transplant or something, |
| 1:03.0 | it's just as likely that you'll find a better one in a different race than in your own race, |
| 1:09.0 | because there's nothing about race that |
| 1:11.1 | would make it more likely that it would be a better liver. Those kinds of things I was pointing |
| 1:16.4 | out last time. And so I was making a big deal out of the fact that being human is vastly more |
| 1:24.0 | important than being any color. And I use the analogy of, you know, if you're |
| 1:29.8 | white or black or red or brown or some shade in between, that'd be like a little |
| 1:34.6 | millimeter down at the IDS tower. And if you're human, that'd be like the height of the |
| 1:40.0 | IDS tower all all the way into the sky. In other words, being human is infinitely more significant, I think, than being any particular race. |
| 1:49.8 | Okay, so I stressed that last time, and I still believe that. |
| 1:53.7 | However, what the group that cares so much about these issues and whom I'm leaning on pretty heavily to give me helpful feedback |
| 2:01.8 | said at the end of that was well two problems with the way you said it tonight number one |
| 2:11.0 | when a majority culture person like you talks like that the way it is heard often by minorities |
| 2:24.3 | is so what's the big deal you're saying so what's the big deal the white majority say culture in America will hear that, that emphasis |
| 2:38.2 | last week. Come on, we're all human. So what's the big deal? Just relax minorities and be human, |
| 2:47.8 | which they hear as relax and be white. |
| 2:52.7 | Be like us. |
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