What do you think about race mixing?

Question

Bluebirds like to be together, eagles hang out with eagles, sparrows stick with sparrows, buzzards go with buzzards. They're all birds, but they go with their own." - Muhammad Ali. (Cassius Clay) "It is against God's law to integrate. It's only nature, not hatred, to keep people among their own kind. A man has to be a fool to want to live in any other culture but his own." - Muhammad Ali



Was he right to say this?

Answer 1

I am American my husband is Hispanic and together we made 3 beautiful children you love who you love and you cant help who your attracted to.

Answer 2

If you were a farmer you'd know that you simply MUST have new blood or your stock gets weaker and weaker (more diseased) with each generation. To suggest colour is like a different genus of a species is simply wrong, and so the analogy is wrong! Our genetics are exactly the same, even if there are differences that make up the colour of our skin. There are white pigeons and grey pigeons and black and grey pigeons all living together outside my window and they all interbreed and live together perfectly naturally! All dogs, whether Collies, Dalmatians or Poodles can all interbreed because they're all from the same original stock, like we are. Every human being on this planet is related to every other human being (1). This can be proved by the mitochondrial DNA (passed down the female line) which proves we are ALL related to ONE woman who lived about 150,000 years ago.(2)
Black and white people are not a different genus of the same species. We're all the same species and culture plays NO part in that whatsoever! We don't interbreed with Gorillas or Chimpanzees (which would be a true analogy of what he was saying about buzzards and sparrows).
He is probably being manipulated by people around him, as he's been punch drunk for the last 25 years and can barely think to speak, let alone decide important cultural issues.

Answer 3

That would depend on whether or not you are opining from an ethical view, or an anthrogenetic one...

There are those of the opinion that we human beings are one 'race', and believe that pronounced physical differences between humans (skin color, hair color and texture, eye shape,...) are trivial matters when it comes to interracial hybridization; that these differences are genetically insignificant, if they even exist at all. Those with this opinion often make the error of interchanging the terms 'race' with 'species'; each have vastly different definitions.

On the other hand, the scientific methodologies behind population genetics give great weight to the counter-position that, contrary to popular socio-ethical views, there are defined genetic differences between races. For example, some DNA-mapping methods can determine not only a person's race, but can also differentiate the degree of 'hybridization' with great accuracy; if someone is 80% African and 20% Japanese, these DNA tests will confirm it. That said, there are ongoing arguments within this scientific arena as to whether or not human hybridization does, or does not, weaken these genetic combinations which have been strengthened through several thousand years of evolution.

I'm sure we'll have it figured out 'relatively' soon; say...
by the Third Millenium... ;-)

"...Float like a lepidopteran,...sting like an apidaen..."

Answer 4

There is nothing wrong with "race" mixing. This is because there is not really scientifically a concept such as different "races". All humans are extremely similar at the DNA level. The real differences lie in culture, religion and economic differences. I am an immigrant to this country and I'm of so called mixed ethnicity - I have English, Irish, French and Afro-Caribbean heritage. My skin is olive coloured, I've been mistaken for anything from mexican, Persian, American, Canadia, Irish, even English. I have relatives whose skin colour varies from black to so called white. I have also lived for a large proportion of my life in Barbados - a Caribbean country which has a "racial" mix of 70% "black", 20% so called "mixed race" people, 7% "white" people and 3% "other" racial groups (mainly those whose forebears came from India and who imiigrated to the island from other parts of the Caribbean). Anyhow, Barbados has a common culture. All Barbadians share this culture. There is a large "black" middle class. The country therefore is very stable despite its racial mix. I think this shows it is culture not race which drives conflict and instability. I also do not believe and cannot find any Biblical or religious sanction against interracial marriage. After all the Bible says all are equal and there is neither Gentile nor Jew etc.

Answer 5

Apples and oranges again ... if you mix a black cat with a white cat ... you'll get rather nice kittens ... :) What is it with this race nonsense anyway? If people love each other, isn't that what matters? Personally I don't think it's the color mix that matters ... but can foresee problems with people of different CULTURES and religions marrying ...I mean an educated white girl would probably have more problems marrying a black street fighter from Somalia than an educated black American man ... both are black, but worlds apart ....

Answer 6

There is only ONE human race, and so in answer to your question, NO...I'm not gonna mix with a member of another race, I know nothing of Chimpanzee, or Dolphin culture anyway, so I'm gonna stick with other humans. Just becuase they're ETHNICALLY different doesn't mean that they are RACIALLY different. If there were such things as racial differences, we wouldn't be able to reproduce and have "mixed race" babies. Too many people confuse race and ethnicity and that's one of the biggest problems that we face. Just because a person has darker skin, or lighter skin, or straighter hair, or kinkier hair, or fatter cheeks, or epicanthic folds over the eyes doesn't make them another "race" it just means that their ancestors grew up in a different neighborhood.

I guess I am a fool though, because I am an African American, and my mate is a Russian. Am I turning my back on African Americans and is he turning his back on Russians? Well, maybe it's the other way around...maybe "our own people" are turning their backs on us, just because we aren't interested in embracing what ultimately amounts to a form of ethnic incest.

Answer 7

Well .Its difficult to live with people from our own race more difficult is to live with people from other races.Not because of any racism issue but because of education and way of lives.However if both love eachother..why dont give it a go?
Cassius Clay was a great boxer but also a crazy man with mental problems and many extra marital relationships.

Answer 8

No. There is a natural comfort in the known, and political consequences inherent in culture shock, so gradual integration to protect a comfort level in a thereby slowly changing home culture, I do agree with. I believe in a melting pot, not multiculturalism. However, I don't believe in segregation.

Answer 9

I think that bigoted and mis-informed opinion is only held now by people who live in isolated communities where they marry at 14, produce far too many hollow eyed children, and have no teeth by the age of 20. Those of us in the civilised world know that there is only one race. The Human Race.

Dave B. May this British Mutt proudly shake your American Mutt hand? :)

Answer 10

Bluebirds are a separate species from eagles. Caucasians are not a separate species from negros or mongaloids/orientals. Frankly, worrying about skin color/racial difference is silly at this point--the races came from one group, and will end up ultimately being all one group again someday.

Answer 11

Love is blind!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately people on both sides of the interracial relationship aren't

The offspring of these relationships are some of the most beautiful people in the world yet neither side recognises them as one of their own.

I have Friends who have struggled to find their identity being neither one thing or another when it comes to following their heritage

Yet when they do they are probably the most qualified to answer this and many other similar questions without prejudice