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I have my children describe themselves as brown. My little girl got into it with another girl, and I asked what she looked like. My little girl says she's a slightly darker brown than me.
The thing there is, when you look up the definition of black, you get
characterized by the absence of light
b : reflecting or transmitting little or no light
6a : thoroughly sinister or evil : wicked
b : indicative of condemnation or discredit
There's is a lot of negatively related to the word, when you look up brown, which most of us are
of the color brown; especially : of dark or tanned complexion
You get nothing but the description of our skin tone. When you categorize a people based off the color of their skin. The definition of that word should merely state, the color of their skin.
This is what I try to teach my children, to look beyond what your told something is. To what it actually is, what it actually means.
I wanted to rope this in with the recent thread about attractiveness. The average thought of what we find attractive is based on programing over 100's of years. Programing not of your own mind but of others.
If I lived in a city that since my birth, was covered in grey and blue tones. And I've been told and reinforced to believe that grey and blue tones are what's beautiful. After a while I will believe the standard of beauty is grey and blue tones.
Till I meet a person who comes from a place where they were programed to believe, beautiful meant red and blue tones. If not open to the idea that color is merely a covering. While I wear everything that embodies grey and blue. That person will try to convince me im ugly, and I will at the same time see them as ugly.
Then consider a person who comes from a place where the entire spectrum is understood. They can find beauty in all tones. And what makes the grey and red person ugly to them. Is their attitude, because to that person, color doesn't matter, it's what the color is covering that has meaning.
The thing there is, when you look up the definition of black, you get
characterized by the absence of light
- a black night
b : reflecting or transmitting little or no light
- black water
6a : thoroughly sinister or evil : wicked
- a black deed
b : indicative of condemnation or discredit
- got a black mark for being late
There's is a lot of negatively related to the word, when you look up brown, which most of us are
of the color brown; especially : of dark or tanned complexion
You get nothing but the description of our skin tone. When you categorize a people based off the color of their skin. The definition of that word should merely state, the color of their skin.
This is what I try to teach my children, to look beyond what your told something is. To what it actually is, what it actually means.
I wanted to rope this in with the recent thread about attractiveness. The average thought of what we find attractive is based on programing over 100's of years. Programing not of your own mind but of others.
If I lived in a city that since my birth, was covered in grey and blue tones. And I've been told and reinforced to believe that grey and blue tones are what's beautiful. After a while I will believe the standard of beauty is grey and blue tones.
Till I meet a person who comes from a place where they were programed to believe, beautiful meant red and blue tones. If not open to the idea that color is merely a covering. While I wear everything that embodies grey and blue. That person will try to convince me im ugly, and I will at the same time see them as ugly.
Then consider a person who comes from a place where the entire spectrum is understood. They can find beauty in all tones. And what makes the grey and red person ugly to them. Is their attitude, because to that person, color doesn't matter, it's what the color is covering that has meaning.
