The Gray Between
Black and White- there are many challenges to defining people with such color characteristics. The color black holds many negative connotations in today’s world. The color black, to many people often times, means dark and not pure. For years, before, the country decided to evolve and politically correct black was coined for the slaves because of that meaning as a color of inferiority and subliminal message sent to people of African American race that they are inferior to a white person in an effort to keep a constant defined box, and a role for people to fit in and describe to. White terminology was created in an effort to create an attitude of superiority towards other races of that time. Literally speaking, white people are not literally a white color and black people are not of black color. Why was it that and is it that we are defined as such and that this age old tradition continues. I have noticed that there are no other races within America that are defined by colors. On anything that you fill out, it says white, inclusive to Caucasian, Anglo-Saxon, European, etc., and continues to define what is considered to fall in the category of white; and on the other end black is inclusive to African, African American and now Caribbean places; the other defined categories are Asian, Hispanic/ Latin and others. But black and white are the only two races defined by color. America claims that they are accepting of all, but I truly don’t feel this is the case. I believe that America was forced into the cultural diversity that exists today and in order to differentiate people are categorized into boxes. Black means many things to people, most recently fear. This is demonstrated with the war of the color of the black male, and the justification of these slayings all due to the fear and negative connotations associated with the color black perpetuated by the