End Racial Classifications & Profiling in the US


End Racial Classifications & Profiling in the US
The Issue
Until the US government bans the collection and forced misidentification and unscientific racial classifications of its citizens that former President & founding father Thomas Jefferson put into place to promote enslavement and discrimination of non-whites, we will have a socially racist society filled with non-white and white extremists that promote the same hatred that has been embed into our psyche through almost 500 years of institutional racism.
In order to justify the colonists enslavement of the previously free African and Native American people to the rest of the world, Thomas Jefferson applied European scientist, Carolus Linnaeus’ 1758 theory of classification, to human beings.
Race is an unscientific recent idea created by western Europeans following exploration across the world to account for differences among people and justify colonization, conquest, enslavement, and social hierarchy among humans.
The term is used to refer to groupings of people according to common origin or background and associated with perceived biological markers. Among humans there are no races except the human race. (source Medicine Magazine 2007)
Race, like other caste systems, has a real psychological effects from the racial classification and forced misidentification of oneself as a "different species" of human and as a sub-citizen. America has a racial classification system still in place.
Thomas Jefferson believed in pologeny, that different races represented different species, and should be classified based on those different species known as "races".
Jefferson was influential in promoting racial classification along with the “one drop doctrine” to determine who was considered “non-white in America”.
Jefferson supported German scientist, Johann Blumenbach’s theory on racial classification that recognized blacks as inferior, and whites as superior. Based on the "one drop doctrine, any American with "one drop" of non-white blood was considered black.
This was the same theory that would later be used in Nazi Germany.
In 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote in support of racial classification and in support of non-white or "inferior" races serving the superior in an article entitled Notes on The State of Virginia:
“Blacks whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances are inferior to whites in the endowments of both the body and mind.”
We still use racial classification as a social caste system in our nation today and it is unconstitutional based on the 14th Amendment.
Since the 18th Century, policies by different names have surfaced: Drapetomania, Racialization, Theory of Genetic Inheritance, Eugenics, and now in our time, Racial Profiling all with the purpose to justify the identification, classification and segregation of groups in our society for economic and political gains and social classification. All using the arbitrary unscientific theory of "race" as their basis.
The designation as "African-American, Hispanic- American, Latin-American are meaningless designations denoting dual citizenship to an arbitrary region of the world.
Designations like Korean-American, German-American, Mexican-American etc denote DUAL CITIZENSHIP. If a parent or grandparent is born in the aforementioned nation, and the citizen is born in the US, then DUAL CITIZENSHIP EXISTS. The United States government with the use of these designations is forcing Americans to declare this Dual Citizenship title that most do not have. Further this is a declaration of allegiance to other countries and regions of the world, weakening our Unity & National Defense.
Affirmative Action was abolished many years ago. Therefore racial classifications are the only remaining means of identifying and excluding those from equal opportunities and should be removed from all government forms, applications etc.
Programs like the US census that track immigration and collect voluntary information can use the originating country of origin for those classifications instead of the arbitrary color of the skin of those arriving from them like "black" or "white hispanic".
The words of former President, Thomas Jefferson are still unchallenged as long as we keep the system he established in place; one that forces Americans to identify themselves based on racist standards and which assert, that:
“One drop of black blood causes the “distinction of circumstances that make blacks inferior to whites in both the body and mind.”

The Issue
Until the US government bans the collection and forced misidentification and unscientific racial classifications of its citizens that former President & founding father Thomas Jefferson put into place to promote enslavement and discrimination of non-whites, we will have a socially racist society filled with non-white and white extremists that promote the same hatred that has been embed into our psyche through almost 500 years of institutional racism.
In order to justify the colonists enslavement of the previously free African and Native American people to the rest of the world, Thomas Jefferson applied European scientist, Carolus Linnaeus’ 1758 theory of classification, to human beings.
Race is an unscientific recent idea created by western Europeans following exploration across the world to account for differences among people and justify colonization, conquest, enslavement, and social hierarchy among humans.
The term is used to refer to groupings of people according to common origin or background and associated with perceived biological markers. Among humans there are no races except the human race. (source Medicine Magazine 2007)
Race, like other caste systems, has a real psychological effects from the racial classification and forced misidentification of oneself as a "different species" of human and as a sub-citizen. America has a racial classification system still in place.
Thomas Jefferson believed in pologeny, that different races represented different species, and should be classified based on those different species known as "races".
Jefferson was influential in promoting racial classification along with the “one drop doctrine” to determine who was considered “non-white in America”.
Jefferson supported German scientist, Johann Blumenbach’s theory on racial classification that recognized blacks as inferior, and whites as superior. Based on the "one drop doctrine, any American with "one drop" of non-white blood was considered black.
This was the same theory that would later be used in Nazi Germany.
In 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote in support of racial classification and in support of non-white or "inferior" races serving the superior in an article entitled Notes on The State of Virginia:
“Blacks whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances are inferior to whites in the endowments of both the body and mind.”
We still use racial classification as a social caste system in our nation today and it is unconstitutional based on the 14th Amendment.
Since the 18th Century, policies by different names have surfaced: Drapetomania, Racialization, Theory of Genetic Inheritance, Eugenics, and now in our time, Racial Profiling all with the purpose to justify the identification, classification and segregation of groups in our society for economic and political gains and social classification. All using the arbitrary unscientific theory of "race" as their basis.
The designation as "African-American, Hispanic- American, Latin-American are meaningless designations denoting dual citizenship to an arbitrary region of the world.
Designations like Korean-American, German-American, Mexican-American etc denote DUAL CITIZENSHIP. If a parent or grandparent is born in the aforementioned nation, and the citizen is born in the US, then DUAL CITIZENSHIP EXISTS. The United States government with the use of these designations is forcing Americans to declare this Dual Citizenship title that most do not have. Further this is a declaration of allegiance to other countries and regions of the world, weakening our Unity & National Defense.
Affirmative Action was abolished many years ago. Therefore racial classifications are the only remaining means of identifying and excluding those from equal opportunities and should be removed from all government forms, applications etc.
Programs like the US census that track immigration and collect voluntary information can use the originating country of origin for those classifications instead of the arbitrary color of the skin of those arriving from them like "black" or "white hispanic".
The words of former President, Thomas Jefferson are still unchallenged as long as we keep the system he established in place; one that forces Americans to identify themselves based on racist standards and which assert, that:
“One drop of black blood causes the “distinction of circumstances that make blacks inferior to whites in both the body and mind.”

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Petition created on April 5, 2012


