The picture in this post shows siblings. They are ‘black and white’ fraternal twins. Same parents!! The truth shown in this photograph says more than all of the divisive rhetoric swirling around us of late. There is one race…the human race. I am SO TIRED of all the talk about skin color. I do not know why everyone else is not exhausted by it too. Or maybe they are, but afraid to say so.
My eyes are green. My hair is brown (well, ok…gray colored brown) My nails are painted pink. My skin is…….does it matter? Do you want to know the color of my skin? Is it more important than the color of my eyes? The eyes are the window of the soul! The color of my skin is just not that important.
So how can we move forward? We desperately need to move beyond the superficial judging of people. I am all for celebrating one’s ancestry and heritage. It is fun to know from whence you came. But there are saints and scoundrels in all of our pasts. There is saint and scoundrel in each of us! And in America we are a melting pot….we just are not melting together too well lately. Our differences are crystallizing us into separate little islands of discontent. We have so much to be thankful for together in this country….enough of the negativity already! I am an American, descended from immigrants from a foreign land where there skin color was…..mostly similar to mine.
