The Multi-racial person is, in contrast, more closely related to a much
greater portion of humanity. He or she has a wider gene pool behind him or
her. This means the possibility of a greater variety of beneficial genes
that provide different kinds of good qualities, such as intelligence,
strength, stamina, immunity, etc.
In the social realm, we have more relatives. We have closer kinship to more
humans, because we are kin to more than one grouping. We can move among more
people, different peoples, and still be among our own people.
Mentally, it is so much easier to say "I am human, and all people are my
people." because we cannot be told that "this and only this is your people,
and everyone else is other." And when the in-bred racist whose heritage is
one of those we have says, "You are not my kind, because you are part
foreign," all we need to do is laugh. We are his kind, but we are also more
than his kind. If we remain attached to our particular peoples, still our
attachment is to more humans, to a wider group of humans. All humans are
humans, however, and with a less-narrow perspective to begin with, it is
easier to recognize the bonds among all.
There is a word, "eugenics". What does it mean? Most literally, "good (eu-)
breeding (genic)". It has acquired a negative popular meaning, because some
people have used it as an excuse to either eliminate or sterilize those
considered likely to perpetuate what someone thought was undesirable traits
in their potential offspring. But that is a distortion, to say the least.
Actually, real good breeding is obviously a "good" thing. In my opinion, the
best long-term good breeding (eugenics) for humanity will be served if there
is BOTH (1) ethnic/racial inbreeding, which will ensure the preservation of
any good qualities in that grouping AND (2) interbreeding among groups, with
some of the multiracial offspring marrying back into one of the inbred
groups, thus preventing that inbreeding from making the group totally alien
from other groups. It is necessary for there to be mixing of gene pools to
prevent negative traits, that is to say, weaknesses, from becoming
predominant, by reinforcing each other.
The most beautiful thing about this reality is that it requires no special
effort, EXCEPT to maintain the freedom of people to breed outside their
group when they wish to. People are most often attracted to their own group,
satisfying item (1), but people also are known to fall in love or even just
lust, with people from other groups (fuelling many examples of the finest
literature in the world), satisfying item (2). When a tribe, caste, clan or
race enforces rigid endogamy (marriage only within the group), they enforce
inbreeding and harm themselves in the long run, whatever their motivation
may be for their rule.
Sometimes the inbred ones say that people should not interbreed, because it
is disloyal to their culture. This is nothing but amusing, because they, in
the USA and other modern countries where people are likely to say such things,
are not being loyal to the cultures of their ancestors. They are actually
most often only being loyal to "cultures" controlled by the businessmen of
the music and clothing-fashion industries. Maybe they make some concession
to their heritage a few days a year at, maybe, the Highland Games, or
Kwanzaa as the case may be.
We, the multiracial humans, are the superior breed. We have the heritage of
more great peoples, cultures, sages, and kings in our bodies. Our very
existence prevents the division of humankind into little inbred groups. And
our mating, no matter whom with, strengthens the human gene pool by passing
on good and dominant genes from one group to another. Our loves and lusts
fuel the future. We are the ties that bind the human family together. And
our existence is the result of love and lust that itself was powerful enough to
look beyond the boundaries of racial groupings. This, at least, is becoming
less of an obstacle, since many younger people no longer see race a serious
factor in the acceptability of a mating.
And yet, what is the body in the end, no matter how inbred or interbred,
when compared to the beauty of life, consciousness, and happiness? Every
being, sooner or later, will transcend the narrow limits of attachment to
body and matter, and understand that all life is kin in reality. We who are
not tied to one little group of humans are already at an advantage, a step
ahead that we do not need to overcome. In short we have fewer limits to
transcend.
This subject of multi-raciality, however, is inherently material and
physical. Any advantages in terms of spirituality are simply material
conditions more favorable to spirituality, not spiritual in themselves.
The true eugenics of humanity requires both mostly distinct genetic lines
(ie "races") and mixture between them, to prevent crippling inbreeding, and
to prevent the fracturing of humanity.
Genetically, mentally, and in the spiritual quest, the multi-racial are
superior, and the glory and the strength and the future of humanity! It is
not that our "group" is superior to other groups, as such, but that our
group IS the other groups brought together. Know this, be proud and know
that everyone is our family, to be loved and cared for. Ours is the
supremacy of love and connection, not of hatred and division; of justice
among peoples, not of exploitation and terror. (Ours is the supremacy of
perception of oneness, and of perception of difference for what it is:
little onenesses within the greater oneness.)
It is strange that one-race people can imagine that they are somehow
superior. It is illogical and lacks common sense. A person with only one
race in his or her heritage is inherently and by definition in-bred. This is
on a large scale, so it does not have the extreme risks of close, incestuous
inbreeding, but it is still an inbreeding.
Belenios Ategnatos is a mestizo or metis currently living in Staten Island, New York. Additionally, he has posted a review of Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-Gita in Black and White on Amazon.com.
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