But..I don't care if you are black!!! Any more than I would want you to see me as just a female instead of WHO I AM. Me. What makes me, ME. What you are saying is...if you do not see my hazel eyes that turn colors, then you can never know me because your eyes are brown.Correct. You cant possibly understand or know me if you cant see that I am Black. My lifes experiences are the way that they are because I am Black. My philosophy on life is Afrocentric like my ancestors. If you refuse to or pretend not to see that then there is absolutely no way you can know me because there is no common starting point. You can only know me on a superficial level. Think of it in this way. If I saw you as just a female animal instead of human female how vast would the difference be between what I only allowed myself to see and what you actually are?I love being Black. Thats what I am. You cant understand me as a person if you pretend you dont see what my race is.
I don't love being any particular skin color. It does not make me who I am. And to understand you is to see what your race is?? Really? I can't understand you or appreciate you or dislike you because of who you are and not what color you are? I don't see your skin. I see YOU, in what little I can see from written words. You are putting blocks up with that mindset and I find it quite sad. But, you are not alone in this thinking. That is why racism will never die. On either side.
Sigh.
Fuck it.
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