Reflection Paper Number 13

There are people who enjoy looking at a picture that is completely white. They want nothing else but white on that picture. They analyze it and view it like it is this amazing piece of work. But it is really just white. One day, a color comes into the picture. It can either be black, purple, blue… whatever it is, it is something different than that white. Once these people view this occurrence, they believe that the picture is now tainted; that there is something wrong to have color there. They view it, and it bothers them, so they want to remove it. They then attempt to remove it without thinking of the actual color in the picture. Why are they able to do this? Because the picture is mostly white.
This to me is exactly what Racism is.
Usually, what happens is, there are many different groups of people that are of many different colors. The problem occurs; when there are situations where there is more of one color than the other. Because of this, the majority then decides to take control. Now if you try to analyze how this group does this, it becomes very simple. When you have more people that look like you, it becomes very simple to exclude those that do not look like you.
This to me is very problematic. The group that is taking control only have one thing in mind, themselves and their color. So anyone who comes in to taint that needs to be removed or degraded out of the picture.
If you look into history, whites were very dominant. Not because they were greater or smarter, but because there was just more of them. They believed that they were greater than any other color. But what’s funny is, they were only able to do that because there were more of them. The control was basically handed to them because they won by majority as default.
It becomes saddening to then think of the many different colors that they affected. They ruined human beings lives because they wanted their picture to be a certain way. It becomes mind boggling to see what these people did.
I must say that the story of Emmett Till nails this idea. He was such a young happy little black boy. All he did was whistle at a white woman, and it was all downhill from there. The poor boy was killed in such a treacherous way.
It is so nice to see how now whites are not able to get as much as they did with the story of Emmett. Now because of boys and girls like Emmett, things have changed, and the picture is not only white anymore. It became multicolored so people can live in peace.