Skin colors- Red, yellow, black, white... Blue animals??? Blue GRASS???

Have you ever heard people talking about racism and wondered if they're actually talking about a different species of people? Like in that song, where it talks about the children who are "Red and yellow, black and white"... None of those colors actually describe people... If someone actually had red skin, they'd probably get mistaken for the Devil... Because that idea of the devil being red came from... Somewhere... Hezekiah IV, 3:16-26?

 

And why did no one in the Middle East ever get assigned a color? Like, everyone else is this prismatic rainbow of ridiculousness, but then middle eastern people are just... Middle eastern. They didn't know how to describe it... Did colors not actually get invented until the 1900s or something? People seemed to only be allowed to use the colors of Superman's costume (Red, yellow and blue) and morality (Black and white) and that's it.

 

People apparently like throwing random color buffets around and pretending they have something to do with race. Native Americans used to alternate between calling the first white settlers "Yellow eyes" and "White eyes"

And don't get me started on animals... Have you ever heard someone describe a cat, or a Walrus, or an Elephant (Some of the most talked about animals...) as blue? And you're looking all over the room for this amazing blue cat, probably glowing neon and throwing disco lights everywhere...

And then it's just a boring gray cat and you're really disappointed...

Or maybe that's just me.

Maybe blue cats come from the same place that blue grass does... And then they play that annoying song that was really popular in the late 90s and early 2000s about the blue guy... And everyone gets annoyed and wants to shoot themselves and/or their radios...

 

At any rate, the JAM has kindly made a helpful illustrated guide of what colors actually are, for the people who named the different racial colors: (Who are all certainly very dead)

 



RED



NOT RED

YELLOW

NOT YELLOW

BLACK

NOT BLACK

 

WHITE



CHRIS FUNKHOUSER