COLOR BLINDNESS .......

Why do we keep making it one of our top controversies ? Blacks are surely an essential part of our structure and our fabrics , they've been in this country longer that many of us , two to three centuries at least , and still we mostly behave as if we have great difficulty accepting these facts , and still stigmatize , discredit and denounce their presence .


We in most cases love their athleticism , and consider some Black athletes inspirational in our sports . We love their  music , their songs , tunes and rhythms , some of these influenced our minds and music for ever . We have to admit that we Cherish their spirited minds and ways ,  so very lively and different from most of our Protestant  and Calvinistic rigidity and very focused lives .


We love their dancing skills , their military prowess and enthusiasm  in defending their country , yes we love most of these attributes and features , but we still don't like the people , let's accept it , many of us are still very biased , un-accepting and not liking , short of saying hating , why is that so ??


Are we living a color dislike ??  while in other instances we generally love the color black , we find it very easy to match to almost any other color, is it then an inherited preconceived stigma , a strong feeling that Blacks are not really us , believing that any or all colors  are not really us .


I  consider myself as mostly a "rosy white" , with a touch of brownish tan , enough generally to make me not very pure , coming from a Semitic Middle-Eastern original tribe , and somehow I sometimes for no good reasons harbor these feelings , fortunately I always get very quickly back to my senses .While for instance in Israel Black Jews are considered and treated as second or third class citizens , and Arabs do not even count .


Musslems and Arabs have little respect for colored people , in the Arabic language , consequently in the Arab world , the word slave or Ab'd  pronounced Abed in Arabic , has somehow a different connotation , as it is often given as a first name to males , always attached to God or one of his many attributes , Ab'dalla , the slave of God , or the slave of the generous , the merciful or the powerful . As well as the literal meaning of slave , it is hard and perplexing for many Arabs , when reminded to address Blacks as Black or African , it's practically always Abed .


But hey !! the same applies to other colors as well , any darker skin as in Indian or Srilankan , throughout the middle-East would put the person automatically into a house maid or driver category , the same goes for Israel . Here in America , the ill feelings and intolerance toward other colors takes many shapes and forms whether Latinos , Asians or Arabs . Europeans have similar problems but to a lesser degree , Israelis are notorious in the way they treat their own Black Jews and of course Arabs .


We have to admit in all honesty that these problems are not just police and law enforcement problems but are very obviously societal problems , the same as in many parts of the world , the European continent , Israel and the Arab and Musslem worlds all share the same mentality and problems .


So what is it to be done for our common future ? accept , live with the other or keep denying and resisting our social fabrics , turning our melting pot into a total myth . Both Whites and Blacks as well as any shade of color , race or religion in between , have to understand and get it clearly into our heads , that safeguarding our identities could not be preserved or reconstructed only and through the destruction of the antithetical other .


My usual many thanks for listening .