Look at the world through your eye,

What colors do you see?

Brown, black, yellow, or multi?

 

Even elegant minds, racism corrupts,

Held onto hate until the surface erupts,

Young hearts turned disparaging and cold,

And a bit too eager to apply what they’ve been told.

Skin and man speak on different terms,

Fear and misunderstanding are thus affirmed,

What do we know? And what have we learned?

Whom to trust, when your world is turned?

If we can’t tolerate, we can never trust each other,

The Lord gave us skin, we gave ourselves color,

I wish the world was Color Blind.

 

If beauty is skin deep, the truth must lie deeper,

We are our brothers’ keeper.

They ask when we began the era of discrimination,

Since the dawn of mankind was my insinuation.

Early genocides, criticized as the method of elimination,

Inferiors and infidels died to make room for a master race,

Quick labor during slave times kept work at a faster pace,

Certain peoples were gassed, others noosed with a rope,

Forced to give up all dreams of hope,

It cultivated from the deeds of monsters and fiend.

It didn’t diminish as it so seemed,

Present day, opportunities offered to whom we lean.

Segregation ends where intolerance begins.

Where intolerance ends, prejudice begins.

Prejudice ends where profiling begins.

Minorities, poverty, and street crime,

The picture is already in our minds,

I wish the world was Color Blind.

 

Torture was physical; today it exists in the mind,

We can’t leave the preferences behind,

I wish the world was Color Blind.

It seems ignorance will never depart,

Secret bigotry beats through every heart.

Quiet outside, but inside it hides. Hatred stirs,

Our stained lips secreting lies and racial slurs,

Racism runs both ways,

As a way to make sense of difference,

As a way of providing hopeless struggle and hindrance,

What would be of a nation, divided as people?

A nation, divided, the strong from the feeble.

I stand at the footsteps of the church’s steeple,

Trying to make sense of this evil; trying to pray.

Revenge and fear take over us like prey,

We fall to suspicions of each other day by day,

What infects us as a child is here to stay,

What we teach the kids will never go away.

 

We make our own enemies –

The people we covertly despise,

Look upon with evil-laced eyes.

Quell the hatred and the lies,

You’ll be surprised; you’ll be ten times as wise.

 

The real truth is kept in the dark.

Mend old scars,

Before the moral fabrics starve,

We might be able to reunite a spark.

 

Break the barrier if you don’t like what you see.

Let your soul free.

Let it seek, what is right and SPEAK.

 

Our time is short; don’t waste it on hatred.

Those who divide the human race will be punished.

Those who create hell for the human race will be rebuked.

A man who divides himself from his fellow man will find only turbulence.

 

Blessed are those who inherit the earth.

Their words shall revive equality’s birth.

If we see no evil, we have no biased incline.

Being Color Blind is just fine.

 

Written by Thorne McFarlane (Fatal Dawn)