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I think the time to label people "black" or "white" is past. Why can't we simply be considered either a light skinned male or female or a dark skinned male or female?
If it's a middle eastern person they are a "dark skinned male with middle eastern features"
An African-American (time to kill that label as well) should be a "dark skinned male with African features". I mean how ridiculous is it to call them "African-American"? I've seen people call dark skinned folks "African-American" who weren't even American!
However, the word black was, and still is, used as a symbol that indicates depression, negativity, or something that is mysteriously dark & evil in Western culture. Examples: black magic, Black Friday(discounts), black cat superstition, wearing black at funerals.
While I was watching the movie Malcom X, Mr. X(Denzel Washington) brought up this point about black being a symbol of negativity in dictionaries, while the word white has an opposite meaning. I thought it was a interesting scene and point, and it got me thinking in why are we(people of sub saharan African descent)) addressed as black people when we range from very light skin to very dark brown, and why are people of European descent called ''white'', when there is not one white person in the world who is literally white. Coincidence? Maybe. Or could there be a deeper reason why two major groups of people are assigned to colors that are the antithesis of one another? Then there is the age old phrase ''fair skin.'' What is so fair about light skin or pale-ness? Something to think about.
I know this post wasn't meant to be funny but it reminds me of something that happened between a group of friends...
A few years ago when everyone was on the "No carbs" kick I was out to lunch with friends (one was a Latina, the other one White) and my cousin (who is Black like me). This friend (Latina) had lost weight on the no carbs diet and was telling us the rules...."no white bread, no white sugar, no pasta, no white potatoes...no white foods, they are bad, terrible, etc."
My White friend told us a little later made a joke about it saying that she looked around at us and felt "weird" after all of the "white" food is bad talk. She said that during the conversation it actually made her have a tinge of self consciousness about herself being "White" and hearing "white" being connected to "bad". The rest of us laughed so hard at her "white is bad" freak-out moment. On the one hand it was really funny but on the other hand she never really has to hear about "white" being connected with anything "bad", ever.
I think the time to label people "black" or "white" is past. Why can't we simply be considered either a light skinned male or female or a dark skinned male or female?
If it's a middle eastern person they are a "dark skinned male with middle eastern features"
An African-American (time to kill that label as well) should be a "dark skinned male with African features". I mean how ridiculous is it to call them "African-American"? I've seen people call dark skinned folks "African-American" who weren't even American!
after becoming a veteran that wears the purple heart, I learned that no matter what race a person is, everyone bleeds red.
That is a line i use quite often. You said it, no one of us are better then the next, because we do all bleed red.
I think it does not matter who saves your life when you are in the service, because we are all the same. Some people look at this differently, i do not.
I like that you said that, i say that truthfully quite often, my friends here me say that line.
I also think when you life has to be saved and your in the militarty, does not matter what party your affiliated with either!
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