WHAT IS IN A CLOUR?

 

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there is nothing in the colour of our skins...but in our mind...how will think about ourselves is the colour

Pigment, shades and tints! lol!

Skin color is just about melanin and pigments in someone's skin.

Some have more of it and some have less.

I am with Martin Luther King jr here, skin color should not be more important than the color of someone's eyes.

 

When do we finally realize that???

i wish all of our world could just love one another i have a brown skinned daughter and a white skinned daughter and personally i think darker skin is so beautiful.. i went throgh a battle with my baby girl when she was little because some kid in school called her that aweful n word. for a short time she hated her skin color until i proved a point to her. which is that many white women such as myself and 10000000 everywhere try to get our skin darker thats why we lay in the sun. then we went through the issue of her being called a dot head. the world is cruel. but then i showed her look most indians are big people in our community nothing to be ashamed of. ladies i just want ya all to know color is just that a color and no matter black white brown or yellow it is all beautiful ... love to all♥

@ Broken Angel, I can only imagine the battles you've had to over come with your daughter and I'm soo proud of you for handling her issues in a delicate way that shows and teaches her to love and accept herself reguardless of the ignorant things that people say to her. Have you ever seen the movie "Skin?" Its a sad but well made movie. Check it out if you ever get the chance(I think everyone in this group should see it actually). Anyways, bravo to you for doing such a great job!

@ Broken Angel, Ur daughters are lucky to have a great & caring mom like you. Take care of urs :) 

thanks ya all . i'm just a mom trying to teach mine color means nothing it's what's on ones heart that countshugs ya all

yap pple we should all know what is in us matter not the colour at all. Luv u all

 

When I was younger, my mom told me that the only difference was the color of our skin. If we were all cut, we would bleed red, if someone broke our hearts, we would all hurt and cry the same type of tears, and I have also sent this message to my children.. and they have accepted it and know it... they don't look at color at all..... and I am a very proud mom...

I came from a family that has quite a few racist people in it. I've tried talking to them. They claim, "oh its the way i was raised". I find that bull**** and have no problem saying it. I was brought up in the same family, but I made the decision not to let what others say and do affect how i think and feel about something or someone. We are all human and as Jackie H stated above, we all cry the same tears, we all bleed red. We are all created the same, just with different tones to the skin, just like we have different hair color, different eye color, different shoe size, but its something everyone shares. Just my opinion..

some ppl are raised that way but they want ta continue that way so they came explain away their actions when something in their life dont go right . but if something happens to them n they need an organ they wont care if it came from a non white though but if someone non white needed an organ from a family member they wouldnt wanna give it to a non white !!

"I was raised that way" serves as an excuse for only that long, but once you are mature you have a mind of your own that lame excuse won't do any longer!!!

 

Organs, blood, we all have the same blood types.........A, B, and AB, and the color is RED.

My Great Grandmother made it pretty clear how she felt about "mixing"... she thought my (now ex) husband was black... and she made a comment to me... for the first time that I ever in my life said anything back to her, I told her what my mom had said and her eyes bugged out of her head.

 

Then I proceeded to mention to her that she was not just Norwegian... she also had Irish, and she married an Englishman... so she mixed... cause they were all from different areas... she was a little mad at me... then I proceeded to tell her that my mom married my dad, who was a quarter Indian... and had German... Well, there was definitely some mixing there... she told me I could show myself out the door and when I came to my senses I could come back.

 

She came to my wedding and she had no problem with my first daughter that was born... she opened up just a little.... =)

exactly. it is a complete and total excuse, and i tried explaining that to them, they just dont seem to wanna change and are stuck in their ways. Any advice on how else to speak to them so that they can at least be civil around someone of a different race? Everything I have tried doesnt work.

I honestly feel a person should never be judged for whats on the outside but for whats on the inside. For a brief instance what would we do if jesus comes down and is purple / green / gray or any other color would we make fun of him call him names and cast stones at him. No I am sure they wouldn't and that is what we need to remember to ask them when they start as well as we should stick together as one and come together to defeat racism in this world it all starts out in childhood so lets teach our children and one day racism will die out at least that is my prayers. I have a daughter who is very dark skinned and she is my life. Some of my family will buy my other 2 but not her they even give the gifts back and state if you cant but us all dont buy none. So I feel what each of you go through

I,M TIRED OF BEING A COLOR....ONE WORLD ONE PEOPLE ONE HEART ONE LOVE...I AM NOT SURE ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE BUT WHEN I MEET NEW PEOPLE OF ANY RACE I DO NOT GO HOME AND SAY I MEET A NICE LATIN.BLACK ASIAN WHITE NATIVE AMERICAN WHAT EVER THE RACE I JUST SAY I MEET A NICE PERSON I KNOW THIS COLOR RED IN BLOOD IS ALL THE SAME...HAVE A GOOD DAY ONE LOVE PEACE

You know its wierd but in cuba they dont say black cuban or white cuban they are all just cubans. Here its all about color and that sucks there are good and bad in all of us some people choose which way to go. So i choose to day  to ber PINK

Melanin. Don't be hatin on my melanin. ;)