Colour Me Clear

We seem to spend an undue time worrying about skin colour and too little time thinking about how to stop fretting about the colour of one's skin or the texture of one's hair or the shape of a face when we should concentrate more on what and who an individual is, based on what he or she does. I don't mean what they do for a living, but more on how they act and react in the company of others. Are they considerate, do they share, are they compassionate to those less fortunate, whatever "fortunate" means.  Okay, I know you are going to say "but the colour of my skin is what I am". Maybe so, but that is divisive in a way. It says I am unlike you and not, therefore, one of you.  I think what you are is what your actions stand for, what the history you tell is and how you make it work for the good of all. If suddenly we were  transposed to clear, what would happen? It would mean that colour would no longer have significance. People would see us for what we do and how we behave. Sure we'd have individual preferences and histories, but we wouldn't have people ask strangers, a black Canadian third generation, for example, "where did you come from?". There is some kind of odd idea that because one's colour is not that of a majority in a place, the person must hail from somewhere else. Our country is comprised of something we like to call the Canadian Mosaic, and interestingly, white people were not the originals here but an aboriginal group was. Actually, I don't like being referred to as "white" in the first place. I consider it wrong. I am flesh-toned just as every other human being is. If our skins were all clear, we wouldn't have racial attributes laid upon us because we would be simply another human being just as everyone else is. Our choices of religion, politics and backgrounds would not be areas of pre-conceived notions owing to our shade of skin colour. We might then, have actually a reason to speak to one another if we were curious about origins.  Communication would take place. A ghetto would not be an obvious matter because identification would be essentially impossible based on a certain colour or body or facial format. If you entered or left such an area of choice, your presence wouldn't be something for you or others to worry about. You could move about anywhere in the world, the same as everyone else and not be a stand out owing to the colour of your skin. It is something to think about.