The meaning that has been given to “Race” can be likened to a
very effective global branding campaign. Perhaps one of the
greatest campaigns of mankind in its effectiveness to divide.
The first American settlers used it to market the suppression of
the Native Americans, who were here first. Then came slavery.
Hitler branded “Jews” as a separate “Race” not worthy of living
within a Supremacist White Nation. 9/11 was another effectively
devastating brand campaign. “Religious Branding” cuts as deeply
and as powerfully as “Racial Branding”. Same beast. While racial
propaganda has been around for years, this insidious type of
branding continues to keep human beings separate from each other
as well as hateful, sad, small and afraid. Clearly
unsustainable. Racism is a form of branding that continues daily
for people of color and various minorities in the “United”
States and abroad. Even with Mr. Obama as President, it’s easy
to pretend we’ve re-branded ourselves as a nation. But it’s
evident we have not when you sti