For my literature class we have been reading a rather depressing, but extremely interesting book. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. While reading this book, and even before, my roommates and I had an interesting and 'deep' talk one night. It was about race, but in particular, skin color. Why do we have skin colors? Scientists will go off on me and explain this in terms of biology or evolution, but really, I want to know WHY?
I agree that with different skin colors this makes us a more unique species, and we can certainly argue that this is a key element of diversity, but sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we were all... blue?? Or green? You get the idea. Bottom line, what would a society be like where we all have the same exterior features? Same skin color, same hair, same eyes, even the same height? What if the only distinguishing factor was males and females, just so that we could procreate? When people say race doesn't matter, I think this is sadly a rather utopian idea, because if we picture life the way I just described, I'm sure things would be very different, meaning, that, well... unfortunately, race/skin color/exterior features really do matter (at least on a societal level).
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