In this episode, we discuss race, religion, and culture in the context of the past, present, and future. We discuss the history of race and religion in the United States, and how it has shaped the way we see the world today.
00:00:00.000Well, and so much of this is a matter of preconceptions, especially in the world we
00:00:06.520live in today. We're so inundated with things and race is such a hot button issue. It's been said
00:00:13.280in recent times that race is a social construct, but on the contrary, society is a racial construct.
00:00:22.980And I don't think a lot of people are aware of that, but as social groups were forming,
00:00:27.740I mean, they were formed by people with a common culture and a common heritage.
00:00:33.860And unfortunately, our folk have been demonized lately whenever we want to have any pride in ourselves or any kind of anything's just for us.
00:00:46.320But if we look at it historically, I think most people sympathize with the plight of other indigenous people that Christianity or Islam forced to worship their universal religion and destroyed their ethnic faiths.
00:01:04.320And I think that that's kind of a, it's not the perspective that I think we see this from enough, but if we looked at it from that perspective, I think we might agree more. And I think that, you know, even if we didn't agree, we might have respect for certainly where we're coming as folkish faiths.