I apologize. I've been on a bit of a hiatus lately, and still am a bit. Dave and I have been trying to settle back in since school started, and certainly things were pushed to the side. Like Dear0ne. But rest assured, dear friends, it has not disappeared, Dear0ne still exists!
But I felt I should share a post I wrote for class (each week we make posts on our class's blog. It's a pretty cool concept, I think). This week we watched a film titled 'Indecent Exposure.' It was a documentary-like film about racism and stereotypes, and a seminar that one woman puts on to try to break them down. Here's what struck me the most;
This video made me want to cry, scream and shake someone. I was hurt, I was moved and as much as I began to loath what the woman was doing to the blue eyes, it certainly got me thinking. The one point that stood out to me the most was when one of the blue eyes began talking about how he didn't see himself as a 'blue eye boy.' He got attacked for his statement, and one of the brown eyes told him he should see people as brown eyes because it's what makes him who he is. I agreed, claiming you're colourblind can be demeaning. And then came the moment I had waited for. Without any words, a clip was shown of the blue-eye walking out of his house with his children. And they definitely weren't blue eyes.
In that context, when someone says 'i don't see myself as white/ brown/black/ yellow/ etc' or 'i don't see you as white/brown/black/yellow/etc,' they don't mean it to be offensive. they're not saying they don't value who you are, but that regardless of their skin colour, they're still a person. Dave and I, one day, want to adopt. One of the first questions we get asked when we tell people is 'from where?' We tell them from where ever we are. It doesn't matter to us if we have little brown babies or little black babies or little white babies. They'll still grow up to be children, teens and adults. Our families like to joke about how we'll have the 'colourful' family (we are the only siblings on Dave's side who don't have children of our own yet). We love the idea that we'll have children that need a home- from where ever God sees fit.
