pink. i find myself referring to myself and other "white" people as pink. [View all]

it started off just as playful, then more as snark.

but the more i think about it, the more i like it.

it deflates the whole lot of the "culture" and "race" and even politics that goes along with "white" and points out that it's just a damn skin color.

the whole concept of "white" people and "black" people is really just a (mostly, though not exclusively) american creation to justify slavery and other forms of mistreatment of other humans based on a convenient yet arbitrary superficial division that served the interests of a conquering set of people and nations (basically europeans and their colonies, including america) over the interests of a victimized set of people and nations and cultures (basically african).

just as many disparate cultures and skin colors were lumped together to create a "black" race, a similar set of disparate cultures and skin colors were lumped together to create a "white" race. all for the furthering of slavery and abuse of one group by the other.

all that crap is wrong, always was, and calling white people "pink" helps demystify and de-mythologize the whole thing. forget about your stupid myths about glorious culture and heritage, its just a skin color, and it's not even white. it's pink, and it's stupid as hell to care about it at all.

these idiots and assholes and evil-doers are creating all kinds of havoc just so they can think there's a better shot that americans 100 years from now will largely have pink skin.

when they say they want white culture to be preserved and go on and on about white heritage, it sorta barely sounds like a legitimate point of view. but when you point out that given that they're actually destroying culture and mostly just deporting people and encouraging non-"white" people not to come here, all they're really hoping to accomplish is that the people who inhabit america 100 years from now will mostly have pink skin.

how stupid is that?

tough habit to break, but referring to myself as white gives a nod to something i want no part of.

my skin is pink, dammit!