Racial, Racism, etc. are fancy names of certain types of biased prejudice s against another human being.
When people ask me how I am when they are greeting me, the socially acceptable norm when meeting/greeting others, I usually respond with that I am alright for a coloured person. Because of the PC context that is distorting our language and thoughts today, the usually respond back with. "Are you cold today?" safely thinking that I was talking about the weather even though it might be a hot day.
Usually the person is trying to be polite to me, because usually, their nose is pointing so far into the heavens, that, they tend to not see me as if I am transparent and not in their path.
My response is that I tell them that I did not say that I was "cold person," but rather that "I was alright for a coloured person," and then ask them if they are coloured as well, to which they do not know how to squirm out of giving an answer to my question. I have to fill in the silence of their response and tell them that I must have been coloured in today, because they just saw me, and if I am coloured in so that they could see me, then I must be a coloured person. I find that their response reflects if the person greeting me in the usual manner, is actually really interested in talking with me and is going to listen to me and what I have to say.
Unless we are prepared to listen to each other such that we can learn from the other person, then our conversation is pointless and difficult to continue. Sadly, the "leaders," of BLM protests, are only wanting to talk at the other person, and as such their is no learning occurring that will bring about the required healing for all of the people involved in that conversation. There is more satisfaction for the protestor participants in talking at the "others" than their is in reaching a share understanding of the perceived problems and reaching probable solutions to meet these needs.
Within Australia, I have observed that the most racial peoples are the Aboriginal people themselves, particularly with respect to other Aboriginal tribes with respect to themselves. Their racial biasness is often associated with their greed and the skin colour(s) that is placed upon them from their respective births. They blame the loss of ownership of "their land" as the primary cause for their demise within the demographics of Australian Life. But the reality is that they want to have a foot in both "camps," and they want to "control" their lives to suit their own whims.
Every person, no matter what their skin colouring is, wants an advantage over the other people who live around them. They want to "blame" others for the choices that they have made and expect recompense from the "Other" for their poor choices.
In Ephesians 4:23 Paul tells us that to be a Christian/Disciple of Christ requires us to renew our minds. Sadly, at the moment, it seems that there is little desire to renew the respective minds of the people, out there and those hiding away waiting for the "issues" to go way, so that they can get back to what they were doing before the protests/riots.
In the Parable of the Great treasure found in the field, as told by Jesus, if we want to claim/own that great treasure buried in the field, then we must be prepared to sell everything that we own or have so that we are able to purchase the field to obtain the treasure of immense value that is hidden in that field. Sadly, this parable has been turned around in our understanding and we focus more on what we "lose," i.e. our sins which we want to keep, than on what we will gain when we sell all of our possession, i.e. our sins, to gain the treasure of immense wealth in the field that we buy.
Sadly many people do not want to change, and so there are no solution that will satisfy the needs being strongly spoken about on both sides of the political maze.
To fix many problems, it only takes a series of small incremental steps along the way to resolve the processes needed for a harmonious life with each other. Sadly the first small incremental step seems to big for either side to make.
Shalom
