All Of God's Children Are Multi-Colored

Chocolate, mocha, autumn, sand and tan are among the many shades of color shown on this Benjamin Moore paint chart.

"Black and white are the blandest colors in the crayon box," notes humorist Sam Adams. "Fortunately, rather than our simply being either black or white," he adds, "we all have a true color, " and suggests we find a color chart at a paint store to find out what our actual color is.

Marcia and Millie Biggs are twins.

As confirmed in an article in the April 2018 issue of the National Geographic, "race is not a biological construct, but a social one that can have devastating effects." And writer Elizabeth Kolbert is quoted as saying, "So many of the horrors of the past few centuries can be traced to the idea that one race is inferior to another."

In a related piece we learn that it was Samuel Morton, a doctor in Philadelphia in the 19th century, who first came up with the theory that people can be divided into five races, representing five distinct acts of creation. According to Morton, the most intelligent of these was the so-called Caucasian race, followed by East Asians ("Mongolian"), followed by Southeast Asians, and at the bottom of the list, Native Americans and then "Blacks", or "Ethiopians".

Of course, all of this has been completely debunked, and Craig Venter, a pioneer of DNA sequencing, states unequivocally, "The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis."

Interestingly, the continent of Africa has far more genetic diversity within it than whatever genetic differences African-born people have with people from other parts of the world.

The Bible never categorizes people by race or skin color. The apostle Paul states, "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, but Christ is all, and in all,"  and affirms that "(God) has made of one blood all nations living on the face of the earth."

Let's celebrate the multiple shades of color and unique features of all of our fellow human beings, each incomparably beautiful and special,

And thankfully, not one of them is either black or white.