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Thursday, October 20, 2011

I want to be colorblind

Color is such a powerful thing.

It has the power to affect how things taste, how things look, how we perceive things, how we love things. Color is indeed powerful. Right.

Albeit, all of the good things color brings into this world, color has one major flaw.

It segregates.

Throughout history, a man's color and physical appearances continually defined him. The apartheid, the white supremacist movement, Holocaust, slavery and up to this day, political suppression by race and color.

It took the land of the free, United States of America, over 200 years before it got its first black president. Yes, 2 centuries before a color of man does not dictate his measure. 

Till this day, racism has is the biggest social problem i believe the world i facing. In Malaysia, racial tensions have never been this tense before. So much so that even then younger generations are in on it.

Even I, yours truly have been susceptible to racist thoughts. I know, no one is perfect, but wouldn't the world be a better place if we place human race first before our own race/ tribe?

Sometimes I wish, we were all colorblind

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