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I think this is another mocking/snarky comment. I'll try to respond as if you made it in good faith.

Growing up members of my community would joke that "for every message in the Bible, there is an equal and opposite message in the Bible". If you are asking me to follow only "some" of the scriptures that i tout, then I could very easily follow the ones that align with my current behavior.

I actually have tried several times to separate "culture" from "policy" from "unchanging godly doctrine". I have searched and I feel like I have found some "godly patterns" that are context agnostic.

1. God is no respecter of persons (it doesnt matter what you are compared to any one else, and he considers your context)
2. God could have designed this world in any way, manner, shape, social, etc. and he didn't do anything differently from what we have, so there is something extremely important from the patterns we are seeing around us and the sufferings we endure right now.
3. God designed us to have familys - a period of time where we are helpless, a period of time where we are independent, and a period of time helping others who are helpless, and that we are to learn some key things while in those stages of life (to be able to recognize god's family as different/better/same as our experiences and feelings of love (and other feelings of the spirit)). I am sure someone will want me to debate this with them, and to them i would say go ponder & pray about how evolution could fit into god's plan without becoming athiest.
4. There is a law given before the foundation of the earth upon which all blessings are predicated. Aka God is a scientist and wants us to be scientists.
5. Christ himself said the words of isaiah are great, and Isaiah tended to have a pattern of "diagnosis, prognosis, and prescription". Therefore context matters when trying to heal yourself or others.
6. I could go on and on.

I have not spent my life studying racism, but a few ones come off the top of my head:

• the jews (tribe of Gibeon) were commanded to kill every last human that they saw even the women and children as they came upon a plateau and when they didn't, their children were cursed for several generations. Joshua 9. Specifically Joshua 9:14-15 and 23.
• the only story of a non jew becoming a jew that i remember was the story of Ruth. Ruth 1. (Substantially all other interactions with non jews are heavy with racism).
• The one story that finally opened up christianity from racism-favoring-direct-decendents-of-abraham to everyone was Acts 10. Specifically Acts 10:9-16.
• Christ did some cool stuff with the samaritans, but his ministry was not unto them, so he didn't work among them as in depth as he did with the jews.
• Looking at other scriptures (the book of mormon), there are two civilizations whose timelines are loosely similar to the Olmecs (Jaredites) and the Mayans (Nephites & lamanites). The records of the nephites and lamanites have several wars, propaganda against the other group, etc., and the people of god always would share that the poor would not be naked or hungry, but once there was preachers taking money (aka priestcraft) or people got rich then a war would start within a few years.

To summarize the scriptures regarding racism: for every message, there is an equal and opposite message, so I cant trust you and i cant trust my parents and I can't trust the paid preacher, so Ill have to try to find the godly patterns myself and pray that my efforts will be perfected/made-complete.

My parents interpretation of the scriptures was loosely that you keep to your own and be extra careful when out of your culture/assumptions. This meant they tended to be "nice people" and a little condescending when someone was visiting and not with "their people", but one of my best friends growing up was black and in highschool I spent most saturdays at a friend's house with a latina mom. My parent's perspective and my approach is not explicitly against the teachings of the scriptures there and even has support from several passages.