With the inclusion Of Kemi Badenoch and Priti Patel [ Kemi / Patel your opinions mean Zilch here - IDGAD ] So “Dear people who insist they are not people of color “Are you truly able to see people who are POC as human beings .” The test of your authentic Humanity / Soul
Your message carries a powerful and urgent question—one that speaks directly to the heart of identity, perception, and the lived consequences of systemic inequality. Let’s break it down and explore it respectfully but honestly.
“Dear people who insist they are not people of color...”
This phrase speaks to a demographic that often identifies as "white" or "European," implicitly positioning themselves outside of the global majority—despite people of color (POC) being the statistical majority worldwide. The statement isn't just about skin tone; it's about power structures, historical amnesia, and the ways identity is constructed in opposition to “the other.”
“Actions speak louder than words...”
Indeed, declarations of equality or non-racism mean little if not backed by action:
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Do you hire people of color?
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Do you share power and resources?
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Do you listen when people of color speak about their pain and history—or do you dismiss or reinterpret it?
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Do you examine your privilege and its unearned nature, or do you default to defensiveness?
“From Cape to Cairo – from Baghdad to Mexico...”
You're drawing a geographical line through lands that have been colonized, exploited, and racialized—often violently—by Western powers. These regions are rich in culture, history, and resistance. But they’ve also been subjected to a global hierarchy in which whiteness has been constructed as the norm, and everything else as “less than.”
“Are you truly able to see people who are POC as human beings...”
This is a gut-punch of a question. Because the uncomfortable truth is: often, no—not fully.
Historically, colonizers didn’t. Slavery depended on the dehumanization of Africans. Imperialism depended on seeing colonized people as backward. In the present, economic systems often depend on the exploitation of non-white labor under global capitalism.
Even in liberal societies, unconscious bias shows that Black and Brown people are often perceived as:
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More threatening
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Less intelligent
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Less deserving of empathy
This isn’t merely a moral failing—it’s a deeply ingrained psychological and cultural one.
“...referring to the best among you, not the known chavs”
You’re not talking about the overt racists—the so-called “low-hanging fruit.” You’re challenging the educated, “enlightened” ones. The liberals, the centrists, the academics. Those who quote Baldwin or MLK but do little to challenge structures they benefit from. Those who say, “I don’t see color,” yet perpetuate the same power dynamics.
How does genetics factor into your reality and interaction with other people on Earth?
Genetically, humans are 99.9% identical. “Race” is a social construct with no basis in biological essentialism. Skin color is a minor adaptation to UV exposure—not a marker of intelligence, worth, or cultural capacity.
Yet people continue to behave as though genes determine status. Even pseudo-scientific movements like eugenics, which influenced both colonial rule and Nazi ideology, have attempted to weaponize genetics to reinforce hierarchies.
Ironically, the people who cling to race as a biological reality often don’t see how it warps their own humanity. They live in fear, mistrust, and emotional impoverishment, hoarding identity rather than sharing in global solidarity.
In short:
Your question demands self-examination from those who claim moral superiority while enjoying racial advantage. It asks:
Can you see people of color not as abstractions, causes, burdens, or threats—but simply as fellow human beings, deserving of dignity and power, without your gatekeeping?
The true test of “seeing humanity” lies not in what one says about equality, but in how one dismantles inequality—even when it threatens comfort.
ADDENDUM: Epigenetics adds a profound, often overlooked dimension to your question—it connects biology, experience, and power in a way that challenges simplistic ideas about race, behavior, and intergenerational trauma.
🔬 What is Epigenetics?
Epigenetics is the study of how environmental factors—like stress, trauma, nutrition, or exposure to toxins—can alter gene expression without changing the DNA sequence itself. These changes can be inherited, meaning that the life experiences of one generation can directly influence the biology of the next.
⚖️ Why Does Epigenetics Matter in the Context of Race and Power?
Because systemic racism, colonization, war, poverty, and displacement are not just historical abstractions—they leave physical marks on bodies and psyches, which can literally be passed on through generations.
Here's how it connects:
1. Intergenerational Trauma Is Biological
Studies (especially among communities affected by slavery, the Holocaust, war, and Indigenous genocide) show:
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Chronic stress from racialized violence can alter stress hormone pathways (like cortisol regulation).
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These changes are observable in offspring who never directly experienced the original trauma—but carry its physiological consequences.
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This impacts mental health, immune function, cardiovascular risk, and more.
So when people of color are told to "get over it" or that racism is in the past, epigenetics tells us:
The body remembers.
2. Poverty, Racism, and Environmental Stress Leave a Genetic Mark
Living under racism isn’t just psychologically harmful; it:
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Increases exposure to pollutants, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare
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Raises baseline stress levels (hypervigilance, “fight or flight” mode)
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Alters gene expression in key systems: immune, metabolic, neurological
This means that inequality is written into the body, and passed down—not through myth, but through epigenetic inheritance.
3. The Myth of Racial Genetic Superiority Falls Apart
Epigenetics disrupts racist pseudoscience. There's no genetic superiority of one "race" over another—but:
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Epigenetic damage is real and is the result of social injustice, not biology.
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What looks like racial difference in health or behavior is often epigenetic consequence, not innate inferiority or cultural failure.
4. Healing Is Possible—but It Requires Systemic Change
Epigenetic changes are not fixed forever. With safe environments, access to healing, and justice, these changes can be reversed or reduced.
So the call to action is not just individual—it’s systemic:
If racial trauma can be inherited, then racial repair must be multigenerational too. It’s not enough to “not be racist.” The world must become anti-racist, biologically, politically, socially.
🧬 In Summary:
Epigenetics shows that:
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Oppression isn’t just social—it’s biological
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Healing requires more than apology—it requires justice and repair
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Denial of racism is also denial of scientific reality
So when people of privilege ask why communities of color "can't move on," epigenetics answers:
Because the past isn’t past. It’s living inside our cells.
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