Color bar
By Twinkle EKV

As I've come to know many people over the years online, from the gorean circle's to political ones, no one's ever really asked about ethnic origins or family culture. I've sat in chatrooms observing, knelt in others participating in alternative lifestyle discussions, listened to racial puns, jokes, etc. Very few ever offened me whether politically correct or not, but do we ever really know eachother. Do others really care to know? Instead it seems that we create this image in our minds about another person. We judge it on text, speech, typing, the ability to communicate, actions, vocabulary, speech patterns etc, do we not? Once the image is created that is who that other person becomes to us. Respect or disrespect will form, like or dislike, infatuation, lust, envy, admiration, inspiration and more or less than this. How do we see one another in color? A man can present himself well, educated, strong, dominant, masterly. What is our first impression of him? He might make our belly flutter or awaken a suppressed need or crave. He might simply bring out the best of us while in his presence. He carries himself well and very masculine. A woman can be sensual and becoming. Bright and well read. Submissive or strong willed, a leader. She entices the attention of men, they may be pleased in her company. What color are they? How do you see them? How do you see me? How do I see you? Perhaps we've seen pictures of one another, perhaps we haven't. Do we automatically see another person as white or caucasion? Or can we see them of all colors, all possibilities? Would we still judge the same? When you come to know someone for sometime, but have never seen them, or discussed nationality and then one day you do and find that they were nothing as you imagined but instead black, how do you feel? Does this change anything? Sadly enough, more often than not it does. How come? What is the difference? Is there any difference? Sure there is! We are a mixed up colorful world! Aren't we equal? Of course, we're not. Should we be? Absolutely! Why? Because there is one race. One race of people. It is the actions of people that determine their worth. Some believe that the mixing of color is degrading. Let that be their choice as it is anothers choice to love who he or she wishes. The color bar! The seperation of black and white. Political barriers and economic differences, double standards, and social seperation. You can have this and I can't. I can have this and you can't! We didn't make it this way! Social injustice. If a black man and a white man stood together in a store, heard a gun shot, both ran to safety, which one would be sought first as the perpetrator, when infact neither are? We all know the answer to that? I wonder now as I've started this if anyones views are changing about me. Is discust for me running through anyones veins or can an understanding come from my point. What is my point? My point is that we have come far over the years but not far enough to accept that easily enough it could have been a white man that was at fault for thecrime and not the black man running equally beside him. Any scenario similar would make my point. Do not assume I am leaning one way or the other or that one color is more valuable than the other. They are both just as valuable. Afterall, both were innocent. If someone has a half white and half black child, what is he? Society automatically calls him black. Schools mark him as black, people see him as black. He's the black child. Why? Can he not be called the white child? He is half white. Why can't he just be the child? The child! It is simple enough to call him by his name. Most would point out the black boy, but how come no one says the white boy over there? Hm! The color line, the division of his nationality to be one or the other. As he grows, does he group with black children, or white children? I would hope both. I would hope that he doesn't become an outcast from one to the other, but he will. Very sad! He can be taught well inside his home. He can be educated as to where he came from. Where he descended from. He can be taught both sides of one world, one people, but of different color and history. He will actually be brighter than most caucasion children because most caucasion childrens parents don't teach them black history. This mixed child will know all the history of our world. What his parents may not know, his grandparents will. Who are his grandparents? We are!

"Blessed eternally are those who overcome the color-bar, you never know who he was born to be" ~twinklev