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colorblind
"I am colorblind"
she said,
"and that isn't a metaphor."
"I don't see in Black and White and Blue and Pink,
Yellow or Purple or Red,
I see in a solid Gray.
Unchanging, indifferent, always that same old sold Gray."
"My shirt is Blue today,
or so says my mother who knows everything and does everything
and pretends like everything that is a lie is true
because as a mother she just wants to protect me from the world
that can see the colors and chooses to judge them.
Black means that you are worthless, stupid, a good for nothing who is only worth something as a slave to
White which is all powerful and intelligent and thinks that it is the color that presides over all of the others pegging
Yellow as a too smart, bound to take over the world someday, threat and
Red is a drunken loser who deserves nothing more than to be abused over and over and over again by every other color and have everything it has ever cared about taken away and
Purple is an abomination, the bad influence of the society of colors because it is changing all of the other colors to Purple and it is hurting all of the other colors who blame it for all of the color wars while
Pink and Blue just hang around every color, adding their own stripe, defining each color in a different, unique way."
"My shirt isn't Blue,
my mother lied again because my shirt is White,
like me,
or so the world tells me because I can't see what color I am
I only see in a solid Gray that is not yet defined in any other way except old
and I think that means that I am old,
older than this earth because I don't see those colors.
I only see in solid Gray."
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author's note: the colors represent different groups of people. my little sister asked me about it when she was reading over my shoulder so i just wanted to let you know that. if you don't know what group each color represents then just ask in the comments, i don't mind :)
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I really like this!! My friend is sort of color blind, he can see sort of colors but they are mixed up. I like how you explained what ech color meant :)
Lovely
I really liked the imagery you created for the reader.
Oh, and what color would green, orange, and brown be?
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the dice is cast
i don't really know, i
i don't really know, i originally had green in here as well, but i didn't know who they would represent and so i just didn't put them in. ^o^
I like this.
You might want to put the authors note at thje top, so that it saves on the confusion. I really love the imagery. Great writing!
I loved the analogy, it was
I loved the analogy, it was just subtle enough that I almost didn't understand at first, and then I figured it out right as I was reading all of the "opinions." The purple, pink, and blue were my favorite I think. I love how you weave that in there so easily. I'm impressed. The only thing I was thinking is that with red and purple you say "red is" and "purple is" but the first one you say "yellow as" -pegging yellow as. I think maybe the others should be as, as well. What do you think?
If you want to view paradise, simply look around, and you will. Anything you want to... do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.
i actually, to be totally
i actually, to be totally honest, didn't notice that at all when i wrote it. it just kinda came out that way.
i think that you have a valid point in changing it, i went back and i feel like it would be a good change flow-wise, but i don't know about actually changing it because when writing it that was just how i felt it should be, you know?
i may deliberate on it further, but for now i think i'm going to just keep it the same. i may change it in the near future though.
thanks!
wow!
can you explain the "colors" as groups of people ?
~Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars!~
sure! :) so black is
sure! :)
so black is african americans, white is white people, yellow is asians, red is native americans, purple is the LGBT community, and pink and blue are boy and girl.
i used the colors from the christian little kids song "jesus loves the little children"
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in his sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Ahh-- I didn't see that at
Ahh--
I didn't see that at all...
I saw it as people who wear black are often stereotyped "Goth/Depressed/Etc..."
and white is "Angelic" while red is "angry" Etcetera.
Just to prove everyone sees art in a different way.
If I give you my heart, will you promise to be careful with it?