Who Is Colored?

One area of unclarity is what to call the noticeable and probable American descendents of Africans. In general, the general names of  "colored" and "black" are as illogical and irrational as the racism fueling the economic, social and political discrimination against "those people" or "you people."

Quite simply, inasmuch as black is the absence of all color and white is the presence of all colors (white light going into a prism yields the rainbow of all colors) then the real colored people have always then the white people. Another perspective on this contradiction is the following anonymous ditty.

When I was born, I was black
When I grew up, I was black
When I go out in the sun, I am Black

But you!
When you were born, you were pink
When you grow up, you are white
When you get sick, you are green
When you go out in the sun, you are red
When you get cold, you are blue
And when you die, you are purple
And you call me
Colored!

Quite simply, as noted elsewhere, better terms are chocolate and vanilla than the terms weighted with historical anger and hate, blacks and whites. In between are he caramel folk.

Quite simply, all humanity evolved out of Africans with dark skin. In the U.S., we are all African-Americans. Some came from Africa within the last few hundred years mostly via the Middle Passage. Others, the pale faces, came out thousands of years ago with a sidetrip into Europe. Whiteness evolved as homo sapiens moved away from the equator. As one wag said to me, a comment that will elicit hackles in some quarters, "So, whities are genetically washed-out darkies?"

Who is Colored?
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