Racial discrimination and past-life

I wanted to get peoples' thoughts about why a soul would plan a life full of social difficulties and racial discrimination.

I'm a mixed race person, I'll just say between race A and B. Since childhood, I've had difficulties belonging in either race A or race B, as either side would immediately look at my physical appearance and know that I am not "one of them". As I grew older, I have learned that my mixed-race heritage has significantly impacted my career, dating, and many social prospects. It's painful to go on day-by-day not being able to fit into any real ethnic group, when the rest of the world (communities, business circles, social networks, etc...) seem to be organized more or less by ethnic group, not to mention politics and interest groups.

This type of experience has forced me to turn to spirituality as a possible way to explain some of my life experiences. I had no control over being born a mixed-race person and had no say in the situation I find myself today, but I have noticed it has affected my career prospects in a rather big way as I do not belong on either race A or B, so it's hard for firms run by people from race A or B to really sympathize with me. I work my *** off more than most people yet because of these racial limits I have barely anything to show for it. I see many peers who are pure race A or race B people have no trouble climbing corporate ladder, making lots of money, and enjoying life.

Why doesn't life allow the same to happen to me?

Lately, I've been unable to get a job despite good education, and really yearn for a group where I can belong. Why are these basic things that come easily for most people so difficult for me? The worst is, I go out of my way to help others when I can, and I sympathize with others, but there are many people who just have it so "easy" in life and do not return these favors.

I'm tired of going everyone and being judged by my physical appearance rather than my actions and what's inside.

I'm curious what type of past karma would I be dealing with here, or for those who believe in pre-birth planning, why would I plan such a life? Why does it always happen that I am dealt the odd set of cards? Is there any spiritual purpose behind this loneliness and suffering?

You could investigate such questions through hypnosis. Ask to regress to the life that caused you in this life feeling racially discriminated. The obvious answer would be because you were a racist in another life, but who knows? A good regression gives you the best answers, that usually are unexpected, even striking.

I live in the USA, and although I heard in the news about all kind of discrimination, personally I haven't experienced it, and never witnessed it happening. I don't want to seem insensitive by volunteering more comments, or advice, on what you're feeling.

I wish you a way to alleviate this burden, during this life!

GrandSoul239 said:

I'm tired of ... being judged by my physical appearance rather than my actions and what's inside.

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This is a very interesting question to me, since I think a lot of people experience this feeling for a variety of perspectives, from gender, to skin color, to elements of social expression (such as native/religious clothing). I know I have felt confined and constrained by these systems, too.

There are two forms of bias to overcome. Your own anticipation and their actual perceptions.

For my own situation the only element I could (can) change was myself, so to speak. I can't change how others view the world, but I can use their views to smooth my own path by adapting my approach. Does that make sense? Because the truth is that they don't only see your racial ambiguity. They see your gender, your social expressions, your attitude, your hobbies and interests, your conversational style, etc. That list is very, very long and shifts for each individual depending on their own interests, styles, etc.

So, let's assume the racial ambiguity throws them off from categorizing you. You can still tip them in one direction or another using everything else on that (extremely long) list to influence how they see you. And a lot of that list is under your control, i.e. you can adjust and improve their response patterns by shifting your own actions and approach.

• Social cues are learned and can be upgraded to affect your perceived status, adapting to each group in which you participate.
• How you phrase things can shift from passive, to aggressive, to non-confrontational, to supportive, to empathetic, to mentor-like and more.
• How you dress can communicate in a huge variety of ways, from rebellion or confidence to submission and weakness.
• What you say about yourself when you talk to people will guide how they think of you.
  Example: Are you someone who apologizes all the time or reacts under the assumption that you are being looked down on or mocked? If so, your social cues will betray that attitude to others even if they don't know what it is they're seeing. If you learn to assume that you're liked and included on the joke, you will react very differently. Even those who actually did intend to insult or demean you will find their efforts have been turned on their head and they will be the ones to lose face if you find the right blend of confidence and humor.

I could go on, but I think the above is enough to explain the direction I'm referring to. These are skills that can be learned. I think studying social skills and the science behind culture and so on (especially the science that includes how people can become exceptions to the rule) could be very helpful to you.

The thing is, you might not be here to suffer some form of retributive karma, even though if feels that way. You might be here to learn how to overcome this obstacle and demonstrate your independence from racial limitations by succeeding in freeing your own mind from that perception of limitation and then eliminating it from others' perceptions of you as well, perhaps in a way you have yet to imagine.

However, if you see yourself as the victim of circumstances, that perspective alone will prevent you from seeing the opportunities to overcome and even use those circumstances against themselves, so to speak.

Perhaps your racial ambiguity can become a super-power.

I'm convinced that the obstacles that stand out to us as the most insurmountable and inevitable are probably the ones we're learning to first endure with grace, second separate from our sense of spiritual identity, and third to overcome ... or even play a role in eliminating it from the culture as a whole.

Is not this just another thing to ponder upon, as it relates to the purpose of REINCARNATION?
It seems, based on the many personal accounts of NDEs or OBEs, or even those that recall the place a soul goes to in- between lives, which is a place of beauty, love, tranquility, justice, happiness, bliss, etc. Whereas, the physical plane, although it may have some exceptional such brief good moments, mostly is the opposite of the Astral World. Here on Earth we have, hate, wars, crimes of all sorts, injustice, discrimination, pain, disease, hunger, suffering, and finally, death and decay.

Perhaps that is what reincarnation is for, and we have both worlds, the good and the bad. For how can we appreciate the good without experiencing and knowing the bad?

Are not these our new horizons? To become enlightened is to see this purpose on the horizon of existence, Reality! Reminds me of a Moody Blues' tune, New Horizons

JustinTime said:

I wanted to get peoples' thoughts about why a soul would plan a life full of social difficulties and racial discrimination.

I'm a mixed race person, I'll just say between race A and B. Since childhood, I've had difficulties belonging in either race A or race B, as either side would immediately look at my physical appearance and know that I am not "one of them". As I grew older, I have learned that my mixed-race heritage has significantly impacted my career, dating, and many social prospects. It's painful to go on day-by-day not being able to fit into any real ethnic group, when the rest of the world (communities, business circles, social networks, etc...) seem to be organized more or less by ethnic group, not to mention politics and interest groups.

This type of experience has forced me to turn to spirituality as a possible way to explain some of my life experiences. I had no control over being born a mixed-race person and had no say in the situation I find myself today, but I have noticed it has affected my career prospects in a rather big way as I do not belong on either race A or B, so it's hard for firms run by people from race A or B to really sympathize with me. I work my *** off more than most people yet because of these racial limits I have barely anything to show for it. I see many peers who are pure race A or race B people have no trouble climbing corporate ladder, making lots of money, and enjoying life.

Why doesn't life allow the same to happen to me?

Lately, I've been unable to get a job despite good education, and really yearn for a group where I can belong. Why are these basic things that come easily for most people so difficult for me? The worst is, I go out of my way to help others when I can, and I sympathize with others, but there are many people who just have it so "easy" in life and do not return these favors.

I'm tired of going everyone and being judged by my physical appearance rather than my actions and what's inside.

I'm curious what type of past karma would I be dealing with here, or for those who believe in pre-birth planning, why would I plan such a life? Why does it always happen that I am dealt the odd set of cards? Is there any spiritual purpose behind this loneliness and suffering?

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I have empathy with what you experience. It is so unfair. I don't believe in karma as such. Clearly, I am in the minority on that.

A lot of people don't seem to realise that unless we are blondish with true blue eyes (that may grew in older age) then somewhere in our lineage we are all mixed race even if the genes are numerous generations back. Even with grey eyes and dark blond hair, it is possible to have a Gt Grandparent who was black. Seen this myself.
Red hair is recessive brown, so are green eyes. If only more people knew.

There's a lot of black snobbery in Africa, too. As opposed to white or SE Asian snobbery. A lot of Africans won't recognise tribes who they believe are mixed race as being black. It is all so nonsensical, isn't it? Not least because even if we know what race/s and colour/s we were in pl's we have no idea what we will be next time, if we come back again

Can I ask what country you are in? Here in Britain, we don't seem to have so many of the deep divisions that seem to be prevalent in some other nations - such as in some parts of the USA or Africa for instance. There are quite a lot of mixed races here, albeit mainly in cities (I wouldn't advise London or any large city for a holiday nowadays though. Towns are better bases). The reason isn't the different races. Cities here are often bad places now due to crime in cities being tolerated far more than it used to be. Police have been largely turned into corporate money collectors instead of real crime fighters. They and courts have been largely disempowered from fighting real crime. The tourist board won't advertise that though.

Best wishes,

Angie

Been on both sides of the isle and to be of one race or the other doesn't make things much better when people just know that you are different despite looking no different from themselves. This world is not a good place and many end up going through the grape press like this, had people looked into their own PLs far enough they would have been aware and there wouldn't be racism anymore.

Hi Ritter,

As I've mentioned before, racism exists everywhere, we just make more of a big deal about it in the West than anywhere else. IMO, it is everywhere for a reason. It basically is a reflection on a biological level of the "selfish gene" theory (popularized by Dawkins). This hypothesis focuses on the fact that there is a genetic basis for preferring and promoting those closest to us biologically--beginning with family, and moving outwards from there to clan, village, ethnic group, etc. So, from this standpoint, it is inborn and ingrained. Likewise, at some point or another (probably depending on cultural as well as biological factors) as people get more and more different from"us", preference (based on genetic similarity) is going to drop to zero and animosity will begin to rise.

However, though all of this is probably very "natural" it is likewise "of the flesh". The real question for people who know themselves as being more than merely the particular fleshly envelope they inhabit is whether it holds up to scrutiny from the standpoint of beings who are ultimately not "flesh" but something that merely inhabits flesh intermittently, and may inhabit different types of flesh, including that of different races, creeds, ethnicities, cultures, etc.

In other words, for us as spirits, is this a biological/fleshly tendency (1) to be overcome, or (2) to be fostered/encouraged? My own position is (1). However, that doesn't mean sacrificing and denigrating what is good about our own culture to do so.

Cordially,
S&S

SeaAndSky said:

My own position is (1). However, that doesn't mean sacrificing and denigrating what is good about our own culture to do so.

Cordially,
S&S

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Thumbs up for that!

Ritter said:

Maybe it is to teach a lesson that mixing is not beneficial to the individual or to future generations. Each race is unique and has its benefits. Mixing detracts from that uniqueness and nullifies hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in a particular direction. I am not assigning value to any of the individual races or advocating slavery, global dominance or the like.

As a solution to your individual problem, consider learning a language moving to Brazil or some other very mixed race nation. Cuba, perhaps. There are many enough of mixed race there that it is actually somewhat the norm. It will solidify over time and be, there. I very much appreciate living and working with people who function similarly to me and look like me. I think most do, despite superficial veneers. White people in particular are extreme hypocrites. We say one thing, for decorum, and do the opposite. The whole White Flight thing happens as soon as a few members of other races move into the neighborhood. If we can afford to move, anyway. If we have anywhere left to go. Nowadays, we kind of don't. Poland and Hungary, maybe. That is what is creating all these nasty tensions and hates. I would like there to be clear and defined peoples in the future, too. To travel and experience dkfferent cultures. Not a giant global sameness. Rootlessness.

Being a Swede, it is very hard to not be very angry about what immigration has done to us. What it will mean to us if it continues, namely the genetic eradication of our nation (people), its traditions, our appearence, our traits (good and bad) and so forth. I really try to be constructive here. I do not wish to offend, merely to offer my perspective. If I were you, I would seek out a country or region where people generally are like you. It is what I would do if I had been born in, say, South Africa, as a white person. I'd let Africans have Africa and move to somewhere I could call home. Integrate into a people that I could call my own, eventually.

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I don't think i'd recommend Cuba!
As to the rest, I think most now realise we have the banksters and their plans to thank for withholding the truth about race mixing, the medical and emotional repercussions etc. However, that doesn't give answers to people who are affected, nor to their families.

A very elderly, sucessful Jamaican we know has had his own accountancy business. He is on holiday a lot, abroad, these days and leaves good tried and trusted staff to run his small to medium size business for most things, on a day to day basis. He did work very hard and very long hours, socialising and becoming friends with many clients. His lifelong habit is to ignore racism, and nonchalently class it as 'their problem' and walk away from them to concentrate on those who weren't racist in friendship or business. Yes, everyone feels more comfortable amongst their own but we have to accept that many nations now are so mixed it is impossible to disentangle, and if we want to avoid race wars then we have to get along - but teach people about the problems mixed race people really have to navigate. Those in control have done a very cruel thing in withholding the truth, and that they even had the masses lied to that it's ok to race mix. Nonetheless, it clearly happened in long past history or there would be no whites with brown or green eyes, or brown or red hair - which have been around for milennia and any 'isms' were largely overcome.
I suspect what is happening is another reset. Age of Aquarius, etc.
We may not be able to stop those in control, but being aware of who they are and what they intend can help us protect our loved ones and selves to some extent. As for mixed race or any other people who are decent and educated, Cuba/Africa isn't a good choice, imo.

Ritter said:

Maybe it is to teach a lesson that mixing is not beneficial to the individual or to future generations. Each race is unique and has its benefits. Mixing detracts from that uniqueness and nullifies hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in a particular direction. I am not assigning value to any of the individual races or advocating slavery, global dominance or the like.

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People have always "mixed." Always. They mixed with the Neanderthals, which is how, some scientists believe, red hair came out. Swedes and Norsemen "mixed" with the Celts. Who then "mixed" with the Normans. And physical features have evolved over time with and without help. Assuming your ancestors were always Swedish from the moment they ended up in Sweden, they probably still looked far more like the immigrants you dislike than you. Dark skin, dark hair. Being blue eyed and light haired is very, very modern.

Furthermore, given that you subscribe to the idea of reincarnation, you must accept you might be reborn into a race very different from your own. Then what? Does that make you less?

Looking Backwards said:

People have always "mixed." Always. They mixed with the Neanderthals, which is how, some scientists believe, red hair came out. Swedes and Norsemen "mixed" with the Celts. Who then "mixed" with the Normans. And physical features have evolved over time with and without help. Assuming your ancestors were always Swedish from the moment they ended up in Sweden, they probably still looked far more like the immigrants you dislike than you. Dark skin, dark hair. Being blue eyed and light haired is very, very modern.

Furthermore, given that you subscribe to the idea of reincarnation, you must accept you might be reborn into a race very different from your own. Then what? Does that make you less?

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Tbh, for a while now some of the oldest remains have genetically tested as pale skin, blue eyes, blond hair. There were and still are scientists who state that all human types begun as white skinned from when 'humans' were covered in hair. That stands to reason if you accept the evolution theory. I don't, as I believe that physically we were created for slavery, by more advanced 'people, even colour coded for whatever reasons, and in different places at different times. I also believe that our spirits (energy) were stolen from the spirit world and trapped in bodies, for some sort of energy use (if those more advanced are now gone, as they seem to be, then the 'matrix' they set up has just continued running aimlessly). However, both evolution and what I believe are conjecture).
Nonetheless, tests and artifacts have shown that the vast vast majority of ancient Egyptian mummies were pale caucasions, mostly with blond/red hair and blue eyes. This is typical appearance throughout the fertile crescent, apart from the Nubians who invaded and stayed in part of Egypt when the people and farming there were decimated by severe drought in the 18th dynasty. They were there only c80 years before the Assyrians drove them back out. Egypt became more mixed as late as the 25th dynasty.

There is too much anyone who has studied the subject can write on this. E.G. The artifacts of the ancient Sumarians invariably show them as blue eyed and white. So maybe it depends on what you deem quite recent.

Nonetheless, I definitely remember being dark haired, brown eyed and golden skinned in a quite primitive dying out tribe, living in the deserted smallish archeological remains of whoever had vacated the area. Very clear, natural memory. So I must have crossed to a different 'race' (albeit not a different species).
I also remember being of Italian parentage but born in London. No children in that life, and now I am definitely not descended from any of my then siblings. I was quite well known due to my then famous husband, and as an adult in my life now was able to verify the memories I had when a child, so that is definite to me.

Add to the mix all the races and species that have died out. Then that some scientists now claim that no one originated in Sub-Saharan Africa and that the black races of today may have 'evolved' from Australoids. Oh dear, if the greatest scientific brains can't agree then the rest of humanity hasn't a chance of doing so. Lol.

Whatever, what is most important is to not be race elitist one way or the other, because going waay back no one knows for sure, especially pre Homo Sapien....and if I am correct in my belief then we were all originally created for slavery anyway - and that is a great equaliser indeed, as unpleasant a thought as it is.

To me, my aim is to not reincarnate but to return my spirit to the freedom of 'the source', but there are many different beliefs on reincarnation on here and in the end, any one of them could turn out to be the right answer

Best wishes,

Angie