Chocolate

Have you ever said "I don't see you as black/asian/latino" to a person of color?

I hear it all the time, and the worst part is, the people who say it don't realize that pretending to be colorblind is really belittling the person you're talking to.

I am white. I didn't choose to be white, but I was born that way.

My best guy friend is black, he didn't choose to be black.

Sandra Oh, the actress who plays my favorite character in TV history, she's Asian...Korean. She didn't choose to be.

We are all human. So we have different pigmentation, it doesn't mean that we don't have the same insides. Peel off our skin and you have muscle, veins, arteries, bones. That's what makes us human. Not our skin.

When MerDer fans found out that their precious ship was going to adopt a baby, and more to the matter, a 'black' baby, racial comments spewed all over the internet.

I sat there going, "good for them, they're finally going to have the family they wanted."
It was only after they saw beautiful Zola in Derek's arms that they came around, whats worse, is they acted like just a week ago they hadn't made hateful remarks.

  

You're going to see color. It's always going to be there right in front of you. What matters is what you do with what you see.
When I see a man, no matter what 'race' he may be, the first thing that goes through my head is whether I find him attractive. I like men, so it doesn't matter to me what shade your skin is, if I'm attracted to you then I'm attracted to you.
If you're black. Awesome. We'll have beautiful chocolate children together.

There is no 'ghetto' way of talking. There is proper English...and then there's not.

It's a little scary how naive people are to our past, to the way people of color are treated. Most white people I know take the fact that they are white for granted. They don't even give it a second thought.
I see acts of racism and discrimination every day, I don't understand how people can treat other people that way.

Money Money Money

Must be funny, in a rich mans world

Wealth; a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches.

I admit, when it comes to money I have been very lucky in life.  I can afford to splurge on little things I don't need and pamper myself once in a while. I drive a nice car, I live in a nice house, I buy nice things because I can. Does that make me wealthy? Maybe. But rich? I don't think it does.
Life doesn't deal you all the perfect cards, otherwise it would be too easy. Family has always been a problem for me. I never had that support system at home, never had that safe haven. In school kids were mean to me, at home my mother was mean to me; I couldn't win. I grew up quickly because I had to (maybe around the age of 5/6), it was either grow up or die, and I choose to live.
So I made some decisions I probably shouldn't have, risked my life with other things and then I just stopped caring what other people thought.
F*ck them. They think they're better than you? Let them. They wanna try and tear you down? Stand taller.
Money and valuables, they don't make you happy. They wont make you friends.
Wealth may be money, but it isn't the most important factor in your life. It'll make life easier, sure, but it won't make you happy. The richest person in the world, take a look at them, do they wear a smile on their face? There are plenty of people who share studio apartments with 3 people. They work hard, they don't earn money, but they're happy. They're loved.
Money is money. In the end we all die penniless.
So enjoy the life you have, wether you have hundred spilling out of your pocket or you're just getting by.
You just need to keep trying,  keep working but also stop and enjoy life (whatever life you have) from time to time.

Don't look at the persons wallet, look at their heart. Are they happy? Wealthy?
Which would you rather be; and you can't pick both