Racism has, and probably always will be the biggest cause of division among people in societies all across the world. Rankings and acquisition of status can sometimes come down to the color of your skin and if you are not lucky enough to be qualified among the “superior”, you’re left to your fate.

The light skinned are superior and rule the world while darker skin tones are considered to be ugly; which is why a lot of otherwise beautiful dark skinned people bleach (tone) their skin so as to be perceived as superior. I know some people might want to argue out the reasons why people bleach but we’ll delve into that later.

It  beats my imagination how “superior” people were able to manufacture such thoughts, believe them and consequently force them on us to accept, so much so that we as blacks (to be specific Ghanaians) now discriminate among each other because due to racially diverse genes, some Ghanaians happen to be lighter than others. Wow! It gives a new meaning to the term “superior”.

I bet God thought he was being the ultimate creative genius (which He is anyway) when He thought to give us different skin colors, just to add beauty to the human race, the way he did with the rest of creation. But trust man to ruin it by labeling it.

Why do people with heads, arms, eyes, teeth and organs just like every other individual that constitutes the 7 billion people in the world think they are better than the next person just because there is an absence of melanin in their skin? Is that even something to gloat over?

I read this post somewhere as an answer to the question: Why are black people black and white people white, are we a different species? Is it something to do with the weather? This was considered to be the best answer.

“All human beings originated in Africa, and were presumably dark-skinned or black. But when a proportion migrated to other parts of the world, where the sun shines much less brightly, say Northern Europe, melanin, which darkens the skin, was much less readily produced, and people got progressively lighter in complexion. And the genes suited to the new climate became more dominant.

Consider eye color: in the more tropical zones, where the sun is strong, people tend to have black or brown eyes because these prevent too much light invading the retina; in more northern zones, blue eyes are more suitable because they block less of the light coming in–suitable because there is much less sunlight around. That said these changes in pigmentation and eye color take centuries.

A white man in the tropics grows darker but unless his family has been there for generations, not that much darker. Similarly with black men and women who live in cold or temperate climates for years. The weather is an important factor but it takes many generations to make a difference. We are definitely not a different species in the biological sense of the term. Cultural differences between races are sometimes so strong that some erroneously think it must arise from a difference of species”

At this juncture, feel free to draw your own conclusions. In my opinion, blacks are not black
and whites are not white. We are simply humans. “Black” and “white” is just a label we gave each other somewhere along the way.