Agreed but they are in common usage. What do you prefer, I’m pretty used to being considered white, I’m even white other on a lot of forms apparently filled in to assist with equality.

@girlwithsmiles Christianity is also common. Will just leave it there.

Sure, criticism is fine, but unless you’re prepared to help resolve the issue nothing is really gained by it but poor feelings.
When describing someone as having red hair or being blonde no one gets upset, but for some reason attempting to identify someone by skin colour, an obvious identifier, there’s still an issue. That makes life more difficult. Especially when we’re expected to go back to a heritage that the person may or may not have had in their distant past.
According to archaeology we all came from Africa at some stage.

@girlwithsmiles There really is no issue. I simply stated my personal preference. I did not presume that anyone was obliged to feel the way I do about it.

@girlwithsmiles I also believe that Earth is the common heritage of all known, living things.

It doesn't appear that I hold identifiers or ease of using them in as high of esteem as you.

Science says races of humans are social constructs, anyhow. Human social systems are mostly stupid and grossly uninformed. Falling into the uninformed thinking that there are different species of humans is a part of the problem of uninformed thinking.

Humans with darkly melanated skin are not different types of humans. It's a genetic marker that all humans have. There is no jewish marker in human dna, because jewish is not a race, it's a religion.

Stop the madness.

@BryanLV I don’t hold identifiers in high esteem. I do find it strange that they are so emotive though. Just yesterday I heard 2 people talking it was clear they didn’t know what the correct descriptor was. But I don’t wish to upset anyone, as most ‘decent’ people don’t, it seems to me.

Sure thing, lady. Says does not hold descriptors in high esteem, then uses another descriptor.

This conversation has gotten too stupid to continue. Hilarious.

I understand it. If you have nothing else, you have hope that the next life will be better than your life on earth....and there will be justice.

@Allamanda It is much the same with many Native American tribes in the States. It is not a disguise for them. According to my ex, a Chiricahua Apache, many Native Americans are just very spiritual and can be open to certain aspects of other religions. I really saw that when I lived in Northern NM.

@JesseThompson It was the slave masters who taught the fear of god to slaves, not the ridiculous, romanticized notion that it was only the people who freed them, please! Just stop, no.

You should be embarrassed by that comment. Slave masters taught parts of the bible to make captives feel that god wanted them to love their masters. Because they were uneducated, under penalty of death, they were gullible and believed there was a sky daddy who was everywhere, all at once, even in their thoughts. Slave owners were able to manipulate men and women into accepting unthinkable conditions, and even bred them to teach and police each other.

Not sure where you got your story.

@JesseThompson Got it. My apologies. I was a lil touchy there on that one.

Totally missed the context.