Seeing Past Color

I've always found it odd when someone says that they don't see color. How can you not? I know my wife is a white woman, hell that's one of the reasons I'm with her...

I'm saying "SEE COLOR". However, its what you do with it when you see it that is the true question. My good friend Kat brought this to my attention when she said that there are good and hard working men in all races, and lazy no good trash as well. Not in her words, she's a lady, and I knew what she meant by her statement.

Listen folks... I have been done in by them all. Due to my wonder lust as a young man, I have lived in some of the best and worst places in this great country. I'm happy to have met great people of all races, some of which I would never have met if I did not get outside of the white bread bubble I was raised in. I'm not someone "studied" in sociology, but I have lived and that to me is the best education one can get, and it's free.

I hear these people spouting off about how this race is this way, and theirs is this. Theirs is better because of this and that. Well I hate tell you, but you are no better. Do I see color, you damn right I do. I can't help but to see it. I on the other hand have been fortunate enough to have been brought up in a home where I was taught to love my fellow man. Why is this BS? Why does this not work?

A funny thing happened to me just this weekend. My wife and I were getting Syd enrolled into school; that's another story in which I will put on the Consortium, when one of the teachers at the school said to me," I don't know why people keep asking me if I speak Spanish, I'm not Mexican." I couldn't help but laugh, and tell her, "no you aren't, you're Filipino." Now given where I live, I can see how some would make this mistake. However, if I were someone who didn't see past color, I would haven't know her race and made the smae ignorant mistake.

As most of you know, I'm a black male. And if you didn't know, well you have issues. I don't celebrate just my African heritage, but my wife's Irish, and I'm also an Anglophile, listen to music from India, love Italian, Mexican, and Chinese foods. Because I was willing to open my eyes, and ears, I have been open to a world that is wonderful. SO CELEBRATE ALL RACES, you never know what you may get out of it. Furthermore, just because I am black, doesn't mean that blacks are going to treat me any better then whites or any other race. I have been done wrong by the best of them from all races. Food for thought.