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The Colour of My Skin

My skin colour what does it say about me? does it determine who i am who i want to be? i ask myself is one's dignity,integrity,pride based on their skin colour? years have passed when our brothers and sisters had fought the barrier between the skin colour but i question myself did they succeed was what we as black skinned people wanted achieved? maybe we did maybe we didn't who knows,maybe you do because i don't. my brothers and sisters still feel that we are still classified or categorized with our skin colour it does not feel like a united world. it could be the judgement of the human eye but my brothers and sisters still experience criticism,discrimination,judgement if it had been different it wouldn't have been said "a black man is always a suspect".........OR IS HE? i question myself will we ever be united and be one and not feel that our skin colour determines who we are because in my eyes it is not the skin colour that determines one's character but it is their personality! don't let my skin colour be a judgement source for you!!

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Date: 7/24/2011 12:08:00 AM
We were all conditioned to believe that colour was the fundamental property of one's success. but now we are free I hope the mental barriers are broken too. Another excellent write. More!!
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Hlengiwe Precious Sithole
Date: 7/24/2011 6:38:00 AM
thank you
Date: 7/21/2011 1:56:00 PM
I think it's easy to say that we are all judged and harder to say that we all judge each other. Judgements are impossible to stop, everyone has these snap judgements based on what's happened in their life. What we need to do is recognize these judgements we make and look beyond them to the person. Break our own prejudices to find a friend. :)
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Date: 7/19/2011 4:52:00 AM
so true, we are all judged by our appearance wether we like it our not. put on a suit and tie wear nice clothes and you are ok.....wear rags and not so much.
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Hlengiwe Precious Sithole
Date: 7/19/2011 5:07:00 AM
yeah it is true but do we really have to try so hard.

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