When you think black, do you attribute it to negative things? Well most people will term it racism, but unlike most people, I wish to call it individual differences.
Those who are good with their history are familiar with the popular Martin Luther "I have a dream quote". The dream does not stem from a myopic, racism filled heart, it stems from the desire to unite all men together as men.
People who usually despise a thing so much because they feel better than it, most times they are simply scared of it.
Is black simply a color or more than a color
I remember one of my experiences in the University back then, there were some lecturers who were expatriates that were hired to teach some courses. There was a day when I met one of them at a store and sat close to him (being the only seat available), I remember him using his elbow to nudge me to give him more room.
It would have ended there if he didn't literally tell me to stand and and give him room because he didn't like "we" people touching him.
I had heard that he was fond of that and had done that to other people, but my experience that day made me understand why the chair beside him was usually empty at that store.
People believe racism is a disease, that mentality is wrong if we are to cure it. There are some diseases out there that lack a cure. The truth is that it is a mentality, and if we view it simply as a mentality, only then can we see a solution to it.
I saw a movie one time (I guess it was fictional), about a professional boxer during the Hitler era,he had a match up with a fellow boxer who was black and the whole country was watching.
He won the black boxer and was celebrated like a hero and the president himself even came out to give him the famous presidential handshake for showing that whites were superior according to the president.
It was time for a rematch, this time around,the black boxer was more prepared than the first time. The black guy won and it was time to return home. He got to the airport this time around and met everywhere empty. Not even his fans showed up to welcome him.
The only way to redeem himself was through a third match up with the same guy and if he didn't win, he was going to be in trouble. Turns out the black guy was declared the winner and all hell broke loose for the white guy. He was hunted like an animal in his own country for losing (according to them) to an inferior race.
Truth be told we have to understand that there are also black racists...
Racism on the other side of the divide
So we are made to believe that racism only applies to only one side right? Guess again because racism applies to all and like I said no one in exempt from it.
Before I go on,let me thrill you with my own definition of racism:
Racism is a condition which exists in the absence of love and humanity in which people feel the need to suppress the humanity in their fellow man. Color of the skin and the race of the individual are just the common excuses, the main truth is the mentality of the racist.
Black people are not the victims here, everyone from every tribe is in one way or the other affected by this mentality. My perception of racism goes beyond black and white, in all technicality, there is racism (in my opinion) which occurs even within people of similar ancestry.
I mentioned no race being exempt from it, I have witnessed a situation where a family denied their daughter the right to marry a man because his tribe differed from theirs. Now that is more of a segregation issue, but let us remember that there is very little difference between the two.
I remember sometimes that even after the reign of blackberry phones, which sold their white and black units at a separate amount, with the white being more expensive because it was perceived as more classy, some other local manufacturers of other products followed suit and started selling their white products at a higher rate than the black without anything being added to it.
Speaking of marriage, a friend of mine once said he was never going to marry a girl that is dark in complexion, only a fair skinned girl because he felt the fair ones were the only ones who were clean down below and I was shocked, dark skinned girls are also clean but he was ignorant.
So what makes us truly different?
Apart from the melanin pigmentation and maybe the anthropology, we all have the same anatomy and there is no disease that occurs when a white skinned person marries a dark skinned person.
I read somewhere that sometime back, black pilots were deemed combat ineffective and were not given planes to fly, but now, pilots of all race and colors now exist.
I believe that instead of worrying about the color of your skin or race, worry instead about how to make a difference in the world.
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