"There is a startling number of people out there who are color blind." I remember thinking this as I conversed with a color blind women here at work which in turn triggered in my memory the numerous accounts upon which I discovered that someone's color perception could be summarized by the letters B&W. As an artist I think that this is a tragedy beyond words. I may make a documentary on the subject. It'll be in black and white of course.
And then I'm thinking to myself...If we're so concerned about not offending people this Christmas...I mean Holiday season why are we putting up all these colorful Christmas decorations. Isn't that kind of like slapping our color challenged citizens in the face? If I could I'd make everyone take down those pretty red bows and those brilliant Christmas decorations and put up black and white versions instead. That way all our B&W buddies will be able to rest at night knowing that they aren't missing anything and we'll be be able to sleep knowing we're not offending anyone....brilliant!
More on black & white later.
4 comments:
LOL. Yeah, it really gets at me how people are so worried about offending others during this season, to the point that school programs often cannot even include traditional Christmas carols. I refuse to say "Happy Holidays"; it'll always be "Merry Christmas" for me and I made sure my Christmas cards reflected the same. I'm so rebellious. hehe. :-)
Hope you are doing well!
When I was in 6th grade, not even a Christian yet, we were practicing for our winter preformance and the last song we were to sing was "We wish you a Merry Christmas" That lasted about a week until the music director and school decided that we needed tochange it to " We wish you a Happy Holiday" so as not to offend some teachers that were Jewish. Now mind you there were plenty of songs being sung for the Jewish community including "Draydel Draydel" (I don't know if that's how you spell that, never actaually written it before). ANyway to make a long story short I was livid. I protested, circulated a petition, was pulled out of class by the principal, and I threatened to walk off stage when that song was sung. They wouldn't let me do that, so the best I could at age 10 was to stand up there with my mouth shut and not sing....
So, I didn't think color blind people could only see in black and white, maybe that's a form of it. But I thought for the most part their greens and reds get mixed up so it's hard to distinguish like colors and such. But they can still see in color???
Don't read into it too much.
As you and Seth suggested, I am going back and reading old posts...so here's a comment on something that you were thinking about two years ago that made me think about something now.
This is a stretch - but follow my train of thought.
Thinking about how people, myself included, always try to put so many things into black and white. I can do this, I can't do that...etc etc. What is it wasn't just black and white and shades of grey (if you are willing to let life get messy)...but what if it's about the amazing variety of color - choices - life ...that is available.
Just a thought.
(PS - you shouldn't respond to this comment here...I'll probably never check this specific post again, to be honest :) ).
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