Race/Colour in Barbados « what crazy looks like
Eemanee blogs about race and colour, and throws out the following thoughts:
Even when we remind ourselves of just how fluid and contested race is we fail to reveal that race is in itself a fiction.
When we refuse to see the difference between historical racial privilege and racial slurs we foreclose on any opportunity to dismantle the fiction of race.
And when we recognise race as constructed we refuse to see its construction does not make it any less real.
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Reminds me of a quote I heard some time back (and I can’t remember by whom) that is along the lines of…
we rarely, if ever, judge people solely on the colour of their eyes; why then do we judge people so easily on the colour of their skin?
Makes you wonder, don’t it?
Interesting quote Scotty.Bob Marley also alluded to this quality in his classic song titled WAR:
” Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned,everywhere is war…and until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation,until the colour of a mans skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes,me seh war.And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race,there is war.And until that day,the dream of lasting peace,world citizenship,rule of international morality,will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,but never attained…now every where is war ”
Extremely poignant and apropos lyrics by Bob Marley.RESPECT!!
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