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“Colors" A long time ago our national IDs had the word “wheat” next to the “skin color” category… Some people’s colors were associated with olives and chocolate… Eye colors were described as honey and pistachio colored… There was also the chestnut-colored hair – all descriptions reminding us that we are gifts from the same source: Mother Nature’s womb! As for the racist West, it insists on reducing humanity and painting it with politicized colors of which only one color matters! As for other colors, they are made to be equivalent to nobodies and nothingness… They insist on turning this world into a snow-covered wasteland Into one blank page and no more… [Original poem published in Arabic on October 31, 2023 at ahewar.org]” — Louis Yako
Colors"
A long time ago
our national IDs had the word “wheat”
next to the “skin color” category…
Some people’s colors were associated with
olives and chocolate…
Eye colors were described as honey and pistachio colored…
There was also the chestnut-colored hair –
all descriptions reminding us
that we are gifts from the same source:
Mother Nature’s womb!
As for the racist West,
it insists on reducing humanity
and painting it with politicized colors
of which only one color matters!
As for other colors,
they are made to be equivalent
to nobodies and nothingness…
They insist on turning this world into a snow-covered wasteland
Into one blank page and no more…
[Original poem published in Arabic on October 31, 2023 at ahewar.org]