Colorless Society

The thing about the simplicities of life is that they are just that- simple. Often, they are overlooked and unappreciated. However, upon contemplation of this fact, one may question that if an aspect of human life is so engrained in the essence of humanity, what would the world be like if that accepted necessity never existed? For many of these commonplace privileges, the answer would entail drastic cultural change, and a society of beings that looks quite different from the modern concept of life on Earth. One of these instances emerges when one ponders the world, had the eyes of humanity not been equipped with the specialized rods and cones that allow all to perceive the astounding array of colors that exist in it. A colorless world would …show more content…
Racial inequality is the timeless theme that remains ever present even in today’s advanced society. The intellectual, economic, and social stereotypes surrounding race have always been and still are the barrier between a world where everyone is judged, as Martin Luther King Jr. states, “by the content of their character.” A world with no racial lines would be almost unrecognizable to modern humanity, because, from the very first introductions of people of varying colors hailing from different nations, it has been decided that the lighter the color of your skin, the more refined you are and the more powerful you should be. The “color-line,” as African-American Author W. E. B. DuBois called it, cause many of the great injustices and near-genocides of history, the most well-known examples to Americans being the enslavement of Africans in Europe and the Americas and the destruction of the Native American population by Spanish and English conquistadors and colonists upon the discovery by Europe of North and South America. Though there is no guarantee that Europeans, as a dominant force in those time periods, would not have found another justification for the mistreatment of other ethnic groups, to imagine how life would look had those terrible happenings not occurred is fascinating. It is possible that there would be a majority Native population in America today, or that the African-American population in the United States would be miniscule in comparison to the vast numbers in which they are currently present. One could write an entire novel, and someone probably has, on the possibilities of life without race, but the overarching theme is that the world could have avoided some of its most devastating tragedies; however, there is no guarantee that