Why COLOR still MATTERS??
Studies show, and everyone knows, that "color" is often crucial to the role sensors play in "survival" in the animal kingdom (which includes human beings). Those (of any color) who believe and/or propose that we humans could, or should, be "blind" to this fact, are driven there by questionable, and extreme psychology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
Those who propose "colorblindness" as an approach to social behavior among human beings, believe that simply "ignoring" the color racism that abounds within our day-to-day lives will make the phenomenon "go away". It hasn't, and won't! Only by openly and willingly embracing the various colors of human beings as "normal", "human", "healthy", and "beautiful", can we make this "sickness" go away.
Viewing skin color as somehow significant in the determination of human worth, is a social practice that has existed throughout history (in various schemes), but became a worldwide malignancy in human affairs among Europeans after the African Slave Trade began in the early 1500's.
Today, in 2013, skin color still reigns as the major determinant of human worth among persons of all colors; within nations, within families, and, most of all, within religions. Religion, specifically Christianity, was used to establish and drive the African Slave Trade, and singularly remains as the world-force behind the continuance of color-racism. The people who cling most fervidly to Christianity-based racism are both, those people who benefit most; AND those who suffer most from color discrimination. The practice of color discrimination by Christians; against each other, and among siblings within families, is widespread.
This sickness is taught to succeeding generations, that do not bring this predisposition (to view color in a malignant manner) with them at birth. Ignoring "color" only allows the sickness to continue and to fester.
Governments and States have made their laws, and the enforcement of those laws, contingent on skin color. Many of the old laws have been removed; but recently, there has been a turn back toward
those earlier legal practices (the Roberts Supreme Court, in this regard, is turning back in the direction of the Taney Court of the late 19th Century). To witness this in a period of spreading Global Economic Activity; in a world where at least two-thirds of the population are persons of "color"; is frightful!
Stay Vigilant! Celebrate "Color", with "Fairness" and "Justice"!!
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