Color

Dear editor,

The Hollywood WWII movie "Red Tails" about the Tuskegee Airmen has a scene in it where a black airman addresses not wanting to be called "colored" but wanting to be referred to as "negro" as his race description. He speaks about how white people change skin color due to such things as sea sickness, fright, anger and other not mentioned reasons such as natural tanning. Yet today's liberals and leftists still say the people of "color" are only those of a darker skin.

But isn't the so-called "whiter person" more diverse in color being the only race with multiple natural hair colors such as blonde, brunette, black, and red. Can't the same argument be made when addressing the "whiter person's" many different eye colors? Also with black being a "color" so is "white" because when mixing the two you get a third color being grey in the very large spectrum of colors.

Yet the identity politics of the left digs deep into history to reclaim a divisive, and at one time unwanted, racist term to use in today's society to divide "We the People" by skin color. But which race is actually the race of "color"? The truer argument has been made that we are all of color unless you are a non-reasoning, bigoted, divisive, leftist Democrat being just one of many true but shameful political 50/50 divisions in our nation!

STEVEN KING

Milton

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This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Color