Color-Blinded or Color-Minded?

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The main issue with America is, racism has taken too deep a root in society to be reversed. It is a reoccurring theme in many works. For instance, Olivia Pope on ABC’s Scandal is quoted as saying, “we have to work twice as hard, to get half of what they have.” And this statement couldn’t be more than true. No matter what, we have to prove ourselves above that of anyone else. We could be the best candidate for a job and still be denied. We can have the highest GPA and still be considered dumb. We can even had the purest heart and still be shot down because of a pigment difference. As crazy and melodramatic as America’s color system is, it works for us. As much as us as black people scream “we want equality” for some, the thought of being with white people all the time makes them cringe. What then would a color blind society yield us? Nothing because as much as we wants it for economic or social gain, it can honestly never be attained. Think about it, the Jim Crow laws have been long illegal but white people have found ways to breach it. From killing our men because they are “more likely” to be trouble or keeping us out of the predominantly white institutions because we aren’t capable of succeeding, there are self-put barriers on our success that no government law will do anything to fix the actual problem.

Ultimately, as I have stated in this paper, suggesting to ignore color all together just will not change America’s problem. This is because of a plethora of reasons, but two keys points are: its supremacy in the world and its penetration into people’s minds. The race problem was the reason for world genocides, most notably Hitler’s rampage, so if it has permeated through the nation and America is one of the world’s youngest, so what makes us exempt? It is so ironic that in the nation of immigrants and the “pot luck” or races we have, whites, though of different national origins, still think they own America. Secondly, if this race concept hadn’t permeated into the very being of Americans the colorless society, then it would be an easier pill to swallow. In order for that idea to work even slightly, it would have to introduced now, but might not be actually implemented until another millennium from now. That way the influence of this generation and older would be in the distant memories of the generations to come of the hatred and color divide America has brewed. But even then, that still might not work. As I said, people thrive on the difference that make them who we are. Take out the difference in color and people might lose themselves. I for one believe that race as an entity is good; black people are unique. It is the negative stereotypes they are stubbed with that are the problem and would fix the race problem hanging over the United States.