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Taken from Chp. 7 - Racial Prejudice and Racial Discrimination of Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth (3rd Ed.) by Sam. S. Souryal.
"The issue of racial superiority is as complex as it is fallacious. Let us examine, for intellectual stimulation only, a quandary I often share with my students: the race of Jesus Christ. 'Was he of a superior or an inferior race?' If he was in fact the son of God, it should be safe to assume that he must have been able to choose his race - for instance, Aryan or Roman. Yet he was born a Semitic Jew, supposedly an inferior race at the time. Based on that choice, then, should the Semitic race not be the master race? Yet it is not. On the other hand, if he chose to be born to a modest race to demonstrate his humble origins, how did Semitic Jews end up being God's chosen people. Where would that leave the legacy of racial superiority?"
"The issue of racial superiority is as complex as it is fallacious. Let us examine, for intellectual stimulation only, a quandary I often share with my students: the race of Jesus Christ. 'Was he of a superior or an inferior race?' If he was in fact the son of God, it should be safe to assume that he must have been able to choose his race - for instance, Aryan or Roman. Yet he was born a Semitic Jew, supposedly an inferior race at the time. Based on that choice, then, should the Semitic race not be the master race? Yet it is not. On the other hand, if he chose to be born to a modest race to demonstrate his humble origins, how did Semitic Jews end up being God's chosen people. Where would that leave the legacy of racial superiority?"