by Karolyn Hart

From the first time I became aware of the fact that people made a big deal about each other’s “race” I thought it was silly.  My parents, god bless them, never made judgemental comments about anyone.  I mean never. Not  even when we had the most annoying guests over to our  home. As far as I can remember I don’t even remember hearing them  commenting on people’s clothes, or mannerisms, or anything.  What they instilled in their kids was that what matters the most is character.  What’s going on in the inside.

I grew up blessed because of this.  Most people struggle their entire lives to determine what is important in life. Is it money? Achieving great power? At our house, what mattered was our character and that we loved whoever walked through the door. No matter how they looked, talked, or in some cases smelled.

All these years I’ve comtemplated the “racism” issue.  As a female caucasian I’ve learned that I am awarded certain priviledges just because of my skin color. Like the fact that I can pretty much go anywhere and never have anyone be suspicious of me.  Alot of my friends don’t have that and it bothers me. 

Historically we can read about where it all started between different countries, different cultures, different religions etc etc.  At the end of the day though - we are all human.  I think there are many of us that want to get beyond the whole skin thing. Does it matter what color our skin is?

For too many the answer is still yes. Never have I seen a better analogy that shows how racism is silly, then in plight of one blue man. (No,  not the blue men group - although they are fabulous!) I am talking about 57 year old Paul Karason.  About 14 years ago he started drinking Colloidal water to help with some health issues and he ended up turning blue.  Now get this - once he turned blue his community stopped accepting him. He had to move because of it.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Seriously, the first new color to come into the human race in who knows how long and already we’re being racist against it.   I mean, who’s next?  Obviously, purple is just behind blue - and after that - who are we going to mistreat -  green? Oh wait - we’ve already done that according to Kermit the Frog.

When I look around my world I see a God who created lots of colour. I think he intended it that way. I look at the rainbow and how together all the colours make it what it is - beautiful. Now what would happen if the colours of the rainbow started fighting? Could you imagine if say orange decided one day that it had no desire to be next to yellow?  Chaos would ensue and the beauty would be lost.

Ok, I admit it. I am being silly but the point is that judging people on their skin color really doesn’t make any sense.  We humans are evolving and accomplishing things we never thought possible. It’s time we transform this attitude and start to make Martin Luther King Jr’s “dream” become a reality.

Personally, I am looking forward to the future when our history books talk about a time when humans used to judge each other by the color of the skin.   I can’t wait to see a future scenario play out in a classroom like this.

Teacher: “…but today class we realize the people back then were just silly. Yes, Billy?”
Billy: “Ummmm, I’m confused - how long ago was this?”
Teacher: “Ohh, a very long time ago Billy. It was just after the medieval times - the era we learned about yesterday. Remember? That was when people didn’t know what germs were and didn’t understand why they needed to wash their hands.”
Billy: “and then people stopped being mean to each other?”
Teacher: “Well not right away but as people became more educated they learned and became better.”
Billy: “Ohhhh, like when they realized there were germs so they started washing their hands and then people stopped dying?”
Teacher: “Exactly.”

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