Mankind seen through the looking glass

 

Subject: Mankind seen through the looking glass.

Is ‘race relations’ a question of individual preference and interpretation or is it like the virus something which sits outside our contemplative agenda and yet holds such a sway on our thinking.

As a white person do I run my racial bias’s over each and every person I meet or only the ones who stand out because of some sort of hostility. Do black / none white people hold to their eyes a prism which distorts the whole of the white society, because of the colonists and the plantation owners and do we, because of the colour of our skin represent those plantation owners in the mind of the descendents of slaves. If we continually join the dots and make everyone complicit in what was seen in those days as an economic activity, much like but admittedly much more severe than the Amazon workhouse of today, I rather think that Jeff Bizos disregards colour just as much as he disregards everyone working for him on the shop floor.

Never the less, will we in 50 years tear down any statue erected to him or will society as we know it have disintegrated to such an extent that only those living inside the gated community and who have the books and the education to think it worth while to consider the matter. As the rest fight for survival perhaps there won’t be time for reflection, time  to consider the niceties of life and everyone will be on the treadmill just to stay alive.

Perhaps today then, when a bunch of Indian guys demolished a team of white guys and the white guys fully acknowledge the Indians mastery of a game which those colonists introduced to the sub continent a century ago, that a truly golden age has been reached discovering our true human complexity and putting a stop to manufacturing and categorising our species in trying to decided in which of the categories we belong.