The Commonality of Humanity; the Things that make us ONE! (3) – Our Blood: Red Gold!

There has been a lot of effort on the part of racially inclined individuals to explore the differences between their race and that of others. For many selfish reasons, some persons over many centuries now have stuck with whatever theories or propaganda they can lay hands on to explain the superiority of their race. Some centuries ago, the idea of the ‘blue blood’ was propagated. To quote directly from an online source:

"It was the Spaniards who gave the world the notion that an aristocrat's blood is not red but blue. The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in classic military fashion, occupying land as warriors on horseback. They were to continue the process for more than five hundred years, clawing back sections of the peninsula from its Moorish occupiers, and a nobleman demonstrated his pedigree by holding up his sword arm to display the filigree of blue-blooded veins beneath his pale skin--proof that his birth had not been contaminated by the dark-skinned enemy." Robert Lacey, Aristocrats. Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 6.
{Online link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanliness_of_blood}

Simply put, those individuals promoted the idea that they were superior to others on the claim that their blood was blue. That erroneous notion was partly helped by their light coloured skin which made their veins look visible and bluish. For many centuries, this was used to advance their selfish course and to perpetuate the erroneous belief that they were better than others. Now we know the truth. To quote another online source:

“In vertebrates and other hemoglobin-using creatures, arterial blood and capillary blood are bright red, as oxygen imparts a strong red color to the heme group. Deoxygenated blood is a darker shade of red; this is present in veins, and can be seen during blood donation and when venous blood samples are taken.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood
“Vertebrates include the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks and rays, amphibians, reptiles, mammals,and birds.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate)

This implies that all humans on earth, other mammals, birds and many other living creatures have the same blood colour: red.

Why is this relevant? Remember, we are focusing on the things that make us one; the things that we all share. It does not matter whether you are male or female, black, white or brown, rich or poor, educated or illiterate and no matter your religion; we all have the same blood colour. When other people look down on you and make you feel inferior, just remember: the same blood flow in our veins.

Yes, there are some differences in some micro-contents of our blood: blood types or groups etc. Such micro-differences may reflect our genetic make-up, geographic origin and the environment we live in, but those things do not alter the macro-appearance of our blood. If blood is withdrawn from an individual or there has been an accident and blood is on the scene, you can’t look at the blood with your bare eyes and say: ‘Oh, that’s a white man’s blood or that is Blood group A or B or that is a blood of a person from so and so religion.’ Don’t get me wrong, when our body is exposed to certain poisonous substances, it can temporarily change the colour of the blood but if that individual survives that ordeal, his/her blood colour returns to the universal colour. If a man is sick and he’s anaemic or cyanotic, it changes the colour of the blood. After treatment, his blood colour returns to normal. These temporary changes are indicative of the ills and deficits of the wicked world we live in.

Nevertheless, these things don’t take away the fact that we all are the same. The colour of our blood is another proof that we all have a lot in common and one of it is our red blood, a red gold that flows endlessly throughout the body of a living being in testimony to our One Creator.