COLOUR COUNTS

            Whenever I get a free time to think about all the racism and terrorist attack that is going on everywhere around the world, I sometimes have a headache and an instant dampened mood.

            Everybody seems to be interested in the color of the next person beside them. We have set the color as part of the criteria of social acceptance and yet we all shout down racism whenever we get a chance.

            To choose a leader or a person of authority, we would first consider the origin of the person, we claim only a true indigene will do the job with the diligence we want but sometimes we may have another candidate who is very much ready to serve with all he has got and sees everyone as equal in opposition to the “people’s choice”.

             We have to learn to accept that the world is inter-dominated and ethnocentrism is only going to slow down our development. We depend on each other for resources,education,finances,religious satisfaction that diversify in different regions and parts of the world        no single person can survive on his own because everyone is born with different potential to contribute to the world .discrimination and envy has prevented world balance since potentials are inhibited from growing into substantial skill and productive impact in the society.

            We judge the next person to us based on what we have heard about a single member of their race or an err committed by their race forgetting that the power of time changes  things.

            We hide our weaknesses of not having solutions to the “issue” causing us pain by putting the blame on people of another tribe, race, color, religion since our ethnocentrism and pride makes us believe our race is perfect and should not be associated to delinquencies.

             When can we hope for peace since peace has even become a substance we started allocating race for.

            The moment we start seeing others as the same as us only then will things fall back into place and peace will reign, after all the ovum color and sperm color is the same whether you are white,brown,black,Arab,Jew and we all follow the same development pattern in the uterus.

             It is only when we are born we learn from experiences, misconceptions, schools, family, religious centres, media all the things we know .we need to realize that all our organs regardless of race & nationality have the same color anatomically and function the same way with similar amount of nerve function, the only part of us that may differ is the amount of melanocyte in us which determines how dark our skin is.

            We have to remind ourselves every time that the color of the skin is only an indicator of our diverse nationality and environmental factors.

            Be open, warm to everyone around you , treat people the way you want to be treated and only then are we going to appreciate our diverse gifts and potentials will be explored for our world peace and development as a whole.