A Color Blind World

"My whiteness affords me the privilege to pick and choose when to do this work, their blackness doesn’t."John Ross

When did our world get this way? How long has it been allowed to be like this? Can we stop it? How?

We need a color-blind world,

With color-blind boys and color-blind girls

With their color-blind hearts and color-blind souls

Color-blind minds in color-blind roles

With a color-blind leader, uniting all

With color-blind words that unite, not ignite

We need to make color-blind laws, color-blind decisions

For color-blind people on color-blind missions

We must have color-blind schools

With color-blind teachers teaching color-blind youths

Color-blind churches praising a color-blind God

A Color-blind preacher, this is not odd

Preaching a color-blind gospel from his color-blind bible

To color-blind people, with or without a title

We need color-blind doctors

Because diseases don’t care

What is the color of your eyes, skin, or hair

We must have color-blind courts

With color blind judges, issuing color blind verdicts

From color blind juries

We need color-blind lawyers

To defend our color-blind sons and daughters

Color-blind swimmers need color-blind beaches

Because sharks don’t care if you preach or snitches

Children need color-blind playgrounds and color-blind parks

But not too young to understand what color-blind asks

Open color-blind restaurants and color-blind clubs

Accommodating color-blind people enjoying their grubs

We need color-blind stores,

Where color blind people are opening doors

For color-blind shoppers, shopping from store to store

Spending their hard-earned color-blind dollars galore

We must have color-blind workplaces

Where our skin and our faces

Isn’t a part of our resume

Because Tetrachromacy people will assume

That race is a requirement

For this job of affluence

Not paying attention

To my education

Whether Harvard or Princeton

Because being black takes away my option

We need a color-blind world to give and get equal rights and attention .

Thank you for reading this piece. I hoped you enjoyed it.