Color, color, color

The human ability to visualize color is a wonderful gift. It beautifies our world, and it gives us another way to communicate: red light means stop.

Talk about the color of skin, however, and people go nuts.

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., came on the scene, it took me awhile to warm to his philosophy. After thinking about it however, I agreed, character is important. Skin color, not so much.

Looking at the world as a community, it seems the closer to the equator, the darker the skin. Go to Norway or Sweden and see light skin. Did it originate with the sun? From without, not from within?

When Barack Obama was elected president we heard endlessly of his overwhelming support by Black Americans... even when his policies were failing. Were all Blacks voting for his skin color? You may expect that from people who care little about politics, policy, or the results thereof.

But, what about Black "intellectuals"? As in Black college professors, physicians, CEOs and other people of high accomplishment? Wow! There is a huge diversity of opinion. These outstanding Americans care more for character than for skin color.

Then it was time to analyze comments by some race hustlers. They demand that we be colorblind about skin, while demanding that we be more fair to people of color. What color? Have we not all become "skin-colorblind"!

Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly made some remark about a white Santa. Her colleague, Bill O'Reilly backed her up by saying the mythical character originated in European nations with white populations. The ladies on ABC TV's The View took issue.

What color for a Department Store Santa? Who can you find to do that job? Stick a bushy white wig, mustache and beard on him, and, who can tell?

What color do you want Santa to be? Wait! Remember, we are "skin-colorblind"!

Some insist we should have more Black actors on TV. How can we tell if we're skin-colorblind?

Affirmative Action, diversity in employment practices? How can we tell if we're skin-colorblind?

Then, there is the question, "What color was Jesus?" We don't know because the contemporaries who wrote of him were obviously skin-colorblind!

Well, I, and most white people today are not skin-colorblind. Tanning devices, tanning lotions, etc., are a zillion-dollar business among white populations. We love a beautiful, healthy, brown skin.

It's time to enjoy skin color the same as we enjoy the beauty of color everywhere.