Over the years, there has been division. Whether the divisions is about culture or the shade of our skin color. One thing that has always bothered me was how society actually builds credibility based on this. They throw all kinds of stereotypes about is and if that isn't enough, we have even deeper issues of which skin color looks the best. Which country is better than another country. It's foolishness. How are we going to get together as a people if we are constantly buying into these mass media manipulations. We have people from all over the world. Of course this isn't new because there has been historic records showing this. The thing is when it's time to explore and work towards unity within our global communities, just because a person looks different they are not considered part of the click.
If we have ancestors, that traveled all over the world and many have settled in different parts of it. Than we must understand that the geographic climates and other factors in that environment will change appearance. As time progresses we get a totally different look. I'm strictly talking about the people who have moved from one place and settled in the next. The generations after them will gradually change appearance. Not those who are of mixed race. We can tell this simply by mannerism. For example, a person who lives in Jamaica will have the same mannerism as a person who lives in the United Kingdom. See what I'm saying? Now the higher ups know this. They don't want us to unify. Instead they throw all of these horrible things about us and then spread it worldwide. So no matter where we go there is always some racist stigma against us.
Now we have the majority of the world turning their backs against us. They think all kinds of things and we are labelled: "ghetto, hood rats, thugs, coons, niggers, whores, gangstas, dope dealers, and everything else". If we are getting all this kind of attention from the outside (meaning outside of our own "black" race). Than why in the world are we going to keep attracting that kind of energy towards each other? To me, that doesn't make any sense.
The constant fighting between the Light skinned vs. Dark skinned thing... The media is still trying to bring that up after all these years. I'll never forget a special that Oprah did about that very thing and I see all of these African-American actresses that are still scarred from that. Not just that special but in documentaries, the same exact thing. Effecting us all. Now, God created all shades of color. From dark to light and from light to dark. With that said, I think that particular issue is to divide again. God made us this way so we should be able to accept it. We are all important just by being here. No "lighter" skin tone is going to earn more brownie points in the Kingdom of God just like no "darker" skin tone is going to earn more brownie points in the Kingdom of God. Everything is equal.
As far as society goes, here is the break down of what they think about skin tone:
- People of mixed races are better than light skinned people
- Light skinned people are better than brown skinned people
- Brown skinned people are better than dark brown skinned people
- Dark brown skinned people are better than dark skinned people
See how they they think? See how they try to use this as an advantage to divide us. When we all have a soul inside of us, which makes us equal towards each other. Now, that's some serious game they are playing with us. Not only that but the fact that they have psychologically broke us down so much that anything that we see that is different we are to dismiss it. It's saddens me to see this all the time. We have gone through a lot and we have struggled a lot and we have created a lot of good things over the years and for us to keep falling captive towards a system that isn't designed for us is devastating.
I do believe that once we realize the things that we were gifted with by God, we would feel better about ourselves and want to "own" anything that we have. Society has worked hard to break us. In many ways, it has broken us. We even reject the skin that we are in. We reject all the things that make us who we are. We are a beautiful and colorful people. There really is no reason to feel bad about our culture no matter what.
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