It was a deliberate move to salute and celebrate colors and diversity..!!
Now, it is more cultural, on who should share the endeavor of living, against who has just granted it..!! Lately, both came into the same route, as colors eventually indicate who are mostly frustrated by historical injustices; and became very emotional to conduct sensible dialogue on intellectual basis.. It started with color, yet ends with it again..!! People of color have greater challenges than it was 50 years ago.. Ironically, racism among colored people are deeper than between them and the fair ones..!! I do know that generally in western hemisphere, every citizen pays a day income for international development, mostly in Africa.. I cannot blame the fair ones anymore.. nor talk about historical or hysterical compansations..!!
Yes, Racism is usually taught; by both parties..!! Fighting racism requires both parties to meet in a middle point.. Do people of color do enough to meet the other..? Yes, Asian did, and won cultural and moral equality since 1970th.. Black ones did not.. despite the massive campaigns.. Eventually, the other will pull back..!! Obama will lose re-election..!!
My argument; how much people of color do for their own..?
When searched for a matching personality for life, I had landed among Anglo-Saxons.. Virginian way of life was my own preference.. The Blue amused and amazed me.. When painted my wishes with various grades of the Yellow, I had almost faced the same suspecion..!! Yet, I had to admit that it is not an affordable challenge for me to prove being equal; while my folk prove they are not in everyday..!!
There is lots of preaches, talks and campaigns, but I shall recall a Southern Sudanese lawyer, who was appointed in mid 1970th as Vice President of Sudan, a truly high level professional and respectful gentleman.. Once Dr Abel Alier became frustrated with lengthy equality slogans.. Then, he challenged any of the elite Northern Sudanese politicians to accept his proposal to marry his daughter, sister or relative.. No one dares to comment..!! This is was among people of color, so what may be from the fair ones is no more surprising..!!Someone would ask why marriage is brought into such discussion? Simply: there are only two occasions in life, which are ultimately sacred: Marriage & Death..!!
In Death; eventually there is no debate.. Then lift Marriage to speak Equality..!!
Of the ideas that have appeared in Europe over the centuries, race remains one of the most politically charged and difficult to define. Almost all scholars agree that race is a social construction, signifying no actual or important human difference. Yet, no one would argue that racism, or the process of viewing human groups as defined by inherited ... Read moredifferences and acting in such as way as to reinforce and discriminate on the basis of these differences, is a quite tangible phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteTo best understand how the imagined and the real—the idea and the practice—come together, a historical view of the concept of race is instructive. The story of race and racism in Europe is at one time a study of the very origins of the idea itself and an example of the need to understand the application of racism in different contexts and across different time periods. Part of racism's malleability is rooted in the fact that race and racism have always emerged tethered to other important concepts—such as nation, class, and gender—that tended to reflect local tensions and prejudices.
Yet, race, wherever it emerged, added biological weight to other forms of identity. Race was permanent, indelible, and inheritable. Race told of one's past, present, and future.
Amela Omerika
~ Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. ~
ReplyDeleteDennis Leary
~ Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
~ Racism is something that people can transcend through friendship. ~ Vincent F. Rocchio... and I do live it....
I AGREE: Amela OMERIKA