AN E- MAIL TO AN ELDER
THE CRIME OF
RACISM: NO RIGHT COLOUR NAMES FOR THE WORLD'S DIFFERENT SKIN COLOURS!
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Dear
Mr. Michael R Wenger,
It gives me great pleasure to write this mail regarding the above subject matter that I know you hold dear and near to your heart.
Let me start by quoting from your BLOG: "I have become aware of the pain that well-meaning white Americans inflict on people of color, often without knowing it, and I have come to recognize the richness that awaits those with the courage to embrace our nation’s growing diversity. Yet, I also have come to understand how much I still have to learn about race in this country and how much I will never be able learn."
I read your BLOG about your Memoir and the excerpt from it with a great delight. And I must commend your new and well-informed attitude towards the so-called 'people of colours'!
Sir, I guess you are 71, from my own calculation? Though age is more than mere numbers, I believe you are old enough to advice and educate the 'white' community all over the world to have a rethink and a rebirth of new and good attitude towards the so-called 'black' race and the so called 'people of colours'
Now, when it comes to "how much you still need to learn about Race....", I will like to bring your attention to a few things you may want to look into. The above subject of my mail can make a book title, and I must say, I will be highly honoured, if we can co-write such book together - title can be modified!
I like to make some assertions: the term 'white', 'black' and 'yellow' races that I learnt in my Social Studies Class in Junior Secondary School (Junior High School) and that people of the world freely use today is a misnomer. As I' m growing older and wiser, I now realize that, for want of knowledge of naming the colour of the different types of skin colours that God created, we erroneously adopted 'white', 'black', and 'yellow'. These are three different colours adopted by mortal men to describe the different form of skins created by the Immortal God who has his own divine purpose for making it so! Funnily, bearing in mind that white itself is a colour, yet, the so called 'white' men refer to people of different colours as 'people of colours' I ask- is white not a colour? Are they not also 'people of colour white'? Also, is 'white' skin really white? Is it as white as snow? Is 'black' skin really back? Is it as black as coal? Is 'yellow' skin really yellow? Is it as yellow as a yellow sun or as yellow as a yellow flower? I just imagine how the 'white' person and the 'black' persons on the pictorial design of your Memoir will really look like if that's how they look in real life?
I just want to say that we have more than three types of skin colours and it is fool-hardy to try and group the world under three racial colours which results in Racism that has forever endangers our world! And this racism is a punishable crime which will not be punished by any earthly law enforcement agent but by an heavenly and divine law enforcement agent.
However since man is fond of classification and differentiation, I think the people of the world need to call a world conference and come to an intelligent conclusion of the real and right colour names of the different types of the skin colours of the whole of human race, if we must classified them!
Here is my own humble submission: the colour of your skin does not really matter to me: what matter to me is the colour of your BLOOD, the colour of your BRAIN, and the colour of you HEART! If by chance, the world's Medical Scientists can find out if the whole human race has the same colour of Blood, Brain and Heart, maybe it is time to have a rethink of our racial prejudices!
I therefore suggest that the following be ingrained into the brains of our kids from childhood in the world's Educational Curriculum:
1. NOBODY IS INFERIOR OR SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER PERSON REGARDLESS OF THE COLOUR OF THE SKIN.
2. NO SKIN COLOUR IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE OTHER.
3. NOBODY SHOULD BE JUDGED BY "THE COLOUR OF HIS/HER SKIN, BUT BY THE CONTENT OF HIS/HER CHARACTER", as Martin Luther King Jr. yearned for in U.S before he died.
4. THERE ARE MORE THAN 3 DIFFERRENT TYPES OF SKIN COLOURS IN THE WORLD, AND THE CURRENT SKIN COLOUR NAMES ARE NOT CORRECT, THEY ARE MISNOMERS!
In conclusion, I believe you can use your current position to influence the thinking of a lot of people in our world today. I pray that God will continuously give you the required courage and divine strength to do that and much more.
I sincerely look forward to reading your reply to this mail.
Best of Regards
Fabiyi Agboola Caleb,
Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Mobile: +234 803 508 3656.
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
It gives me great pleasure to write this mail regarding the above subject matter that I know you hold dear and near to your heart.
Let me start by quoting from your BLOG: "I have become aware of the pain that well-meaning white Americans inflict on people of color, often without knowing it, and I have come to recognize the richness that awaits those with the courage to embrace our nation’s growing diversity. Yet, I also have come to understand how much I still have to learn about race in this country and how much I will never be able learn."
I read your BLOG about your Memoir and the excerpt from it with a great delight. And I must commend your new and well-informed attitude towards the so-called 'people of colours'!
Sir, I guess you are 71, from my own calculation? Though age is more than mere numbers, I believe you are old enough to advice and educate the 'white' community all over the world to have a rethink and a rebirth of new and good attitude towards the so-called 'black' race and the so called 'people of colours'
Now, when it comes to "how much you still need to learn about Race....", I will like to bring your attention to a few things you may want to look into. The above subject of my mail can make a book title, and I must say, I will be highly honoured, if we can co-write such book together - title can be modified!
I like to make some assertions: the term 'white', 'black' and 'yellow' races that I learnt in my Social Studies Class in Junior Secondary School (Junior High School) and that people of the world freely use today is a misnomer. As I' m growing older and wiser, I now realize that, for want of knowledge of naming the colour of the different types of skin colours that God created, we erroneously adopted 'white', 'black', and 'yellow'. These are three different colours adopted by mortal men to describe the different form of skins created by the Immortal God who has his own divine purpose for making it so! Funnily, bearing in mind that white itself is a colour, yet, the so called 'white' men refer to people of different colours as 'people of colours' I ask- is white not a colour? Are they not also 'people of colour white'? Also, is 'white' skin really white? Is it as white as snow? Is 'black' skin really back? Is it as black as coal? Is 'yellow' skin really yellow? Is it as yellow as a yellow sun or as yellow as a yellow flower? I just imagine how the 'white' person and the 'black' persons on the pictorial design of your Memoir will really look like if that's how they look in real life?
I just want to say that we have more than three types of skin colours and it is fool-hardy to try and group the world under three racial colours which results in Racism that has forever endangers our world! And this racism is a punishable crime which will not be punished by any earthly law enforcement agent but by an heavenly and divine law enforcement agent.
However since man is fond of classification and differentiation, I think the people of the world need to call a world conference and come to an intelligent conclusion of the real and right colour names of the different types of the skin colours of the whole of human race, if we must classified them!
Here is my own humble submission: the colour of your skin does not really matter to me: what matter to me is the colour of your BLOOD, the colour of your BRAIN, and the colour of you HEART! If by chance, the world's Medical Scientists can find out if the whole human race has the same colour of Blood, Brain and Heart, maybe it is time to have a rethink of our racial prejudices!
I therefore suggest that the following be ingrained into the brains of our kids from childhood in the world's Educational Curriculum:
1. NOBODY IS INFERIOR OR SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER PERSON REGARDLESS OF THE COLOUR OF THE SKIN.
2. NO SKIN COLOUR IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE OTHER.
3. NOBODY SHOULD BE JUDGED BY "THE COLOUR OF HIS/HER SKIN, BUT BY THE CONTENT OF HIS/HER CHARACTER", as Martin Luther King Jr. yearned for in U.S before he died.
4. THERE ARE MORE THAN 3 DIFFERRENT TYPES OF SKIN COLOURS IN THE WORLD, AND THE CURRENT SKIN COLOUR NAMES ARE NOT CORRECT, THEY ARE MISNOMERS!
In conclusion, I believe you can use your current position to influence the thinking of a lot of people in our world today. I pray that God will continuously give you the required courage and divine strength to do that and much more.
I sincerely look forward to reading your reply to this mail.
Best of Regards
Fabiyi Agboola Caleb,
Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Mobile: +234 803 508 3656.
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
After reading this post, if you want to comment about it, please kindly send a mail to, caleb.microlabs@gmail.com
NOTE: Michael R. Wenger is the Author of
the Memoir, MY BLACK FAMILY, MY WHITE PRIVILEGE: A White Man’s Journey Through
the Nation’s Racial Minefield, published in 2012 by Iuniverse inc.
