What are the nature and the causes of modern tribalism? Philosophically, tribalism is the product of irrationalism and collectivism. It is a logical consequence of modern philosophy. If men accept the notion that reason is not valid, what is to guide them and how are they to live?

Obviously, they will seek to join some group—any group—which claims the ability to lead them and to provide some sort of knowledge acquired by some sort of unspecified means. If men accept the notion that the individual is helpless, intellectually and morally, that he has no mind and no rights, that he is nothing, but the group is all, and his only moral significance lies in selfless service to the group—they will be pulled obediently to join a group. But which group? Well, if you believe that you have no mind and no moral value, you cannot have the confidence to make choices—so the only thing for you to do is to join an unchosen group, the group into which you were born, the group to which you were predestined to belong by the sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient power of your body chemistry.

This, of course, is racism. But if your group is small enough, it will not be called “racism”: it will be called “ethnicity.”



“Global Balkanization,”
The Voice of Reason, 117
Ayn Rand

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/tribalism.html

Until just recently, it's been taboo to discuss on a public forum race relations.

No, those separatists groups and people are not new.

They are the ones fighting to keep separatism alive.

Matter of fact, just 3 years ago on one public forum I tried to make a thread regarding separatism.

It was quickly deleted and the administration told me not to make another race relations thread again or I'd be banned.

That stance has been relaxed.

So, those pictures of black people are what you think of when you think of black history? What about the pictures of white people? Is that what you think of for white history? Why do you have such a negative view of black people?

And you're for selective breeding?

Ah, but Black History Month does just that, it is a separatist philosophy. It is a philosophy designed to keep the groups divided such that one deserves some special privilege over another. It is one thing as a group to celebrate your diversity but to force others to acknowledge that group as distinct from all others is not right. But that is not just to "Black History" but to so many other categories that remind us all that we are divided. It is but that the "black" issue is so in your face that it is at the forefront. Just another issue to keep the masses divided and willing to give away the country our founders gave us.



But it is not diversity that is the issue, it is the separation, the division. And never in the history of this country has things been more divided than with Odumbo and the Odumboites.

All or nothing?
Rather hilarious!

You're usually pretty negative when talking about black people, willing. Previous threads and posts show that. You're often making fun of them and being negative for some reason. Why is that?

For example, why did you choose to write this post the way you did?

this says a lot

"But that is not just to "Black History" but to so many other categories that remind us all that we are divided."


division is the reality of how America was founded,,,,

trying to ignore it wont fix it,, being 'reminded ' of it couldn't happen if it wasn't a fact of life

and fixing it cant happen without acknowledging it,, or as you put it

'reminding' people,,,,

The concept of rainbows have a connotation of good, cover the visible spectrum with darkness completing it. But then would that be really good as one does not exist with the other. Again a separatist symbol.

But that diversity was all good. It helped to understand that we each have different backgrounds and cultures. That those differences were to be recognized and honored. It was to unite, not divide. It was to understand, not segregate. It was to show all were equal, not inferior or superior.

Big difference.

Creative expression.
We are all free to be creative in the USA I reside in.

seems like a difference in perception only

one person sees celebrating difference in one situation as 'recognizing and honoring', as 'uniting' and 'understanding' and showing we are not 'inferior or superior'


but in another situation, sees the same things as 'segregating'

interesting,,,

free to be obsessed too

the good and BAD of 'freedom'

How can you say you are asking for one thing when demanding exactly the opposite. You want to be equal but want to be separated. You don't want privileges but are asking everyone to honor a privilege.

And are you African or American, there is no Africa in the Americas. And more specifically, there is no state or possession named Africa within these united States nor even in the United States.

Black History Month is not about separation.
All it does is fill in the gaps in the telling of history.

Absolutely it does, cause and effect, inseparable.

Now, that is a straw-man argument.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who obsesses most of all?

we started out SEPERATED,, didn't ask for it, we are still working towards BECOMING equal

I am African American, as I am not 'black' (of the very darkest color owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white)

and don't choose to label myself as 'negro' (Spanish for black)


why should that matter to someone else?

And getting larger by the day. The sad part is that it is not accidental.