When Blacks & Whites Turn Purple & Blue, We Create America’s “Camouflaged” Future
The time for American identity to embrace Crayola-style change has come.
When it comes to color-defined races and creeds in America, everybody’s having a pretty rough time of it these days. If you’re white, you’re a racist asshole. If you’re black, your body is being destroyed. If you’re brown, you’re a “curry scented bitch” or possibly soon to be placed behind a wall. If you’re yellow, you’re Chinese or Korean these days, and you represent a strange yet intriguing world of wonder and riches. If a red person, you’re 2% of the population and your legacy is tied into a pitiable NFL franchise in the Nation’s Capital. Even further, if you transcend color, but have the letters L,G,B,T,Q,I, or A ascribed to your personage, there’s no space that’s safe for you anymore, anywhere. That’s why I’m advocating that for all of us in America who are not racists, assholes, un-destroyed, not “bitches,” free from walls and able to find safety in public spaces to consider the idea of “camouflaging” ourselves as “purple” and “blue” people moving ahead in order to hiding ourselves from our nation’s wild and fractious future.
In an America where people still see each other’s known differences, there’s a veritable laundry list of terrible things occurring that should require us to overhaul the way we think about race, gender, culture and society overall. Instead of black, white, red, yellow and brown, and metaphorical crayon boxes marked “gay” and “straight” I’m only seeing two new colors sitting in one box that a nation obsessed with creating angst and division will not be able to see. I’m officially only trying to associate myself with a group of “camouflaged” and “unseen” people in America who are wanting to live in unity and peace. Ironically, the words peace and unity are associated with the colors blue and purple, respectively.
Blue and purple are from the same color family, occupying the same reach of the color spectrum. That’s important. In America in 2020, there’s arguably more things that unify a greater and more diverse breadth of Americans than ever before. For instance, the 2016 election proves that both black and white people dislike Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to a significant degree. Furthermore, Trump’s Presidential campaign proves that the classic definitions of what race, society, culture and gender represented to this country have now become so fractious and fraught with the most demeaning of stereotypes that attempting to fix them probably does more harm than good by rehashing old ideas that stir up angry and antiquated emotions. Embracing a shift to blues and purples creates a clean slate that erases these broken norms and creates a better way for America to move ahead.
Unfortunately, we are not going to easily arrive at a place in American society where people are accept that being “camouflaged” “blue” or “purple” is the best idea. Honestly, there’s a great chance that we actually don’t reach this position at all, as the memories of everything from Orlando to Freddie Gray, and Wounded Knee to Japanese internment camps in World War II may create too far of a bridge for Americans to cross in order to begin living re-defined, unified and potentially more peaceful lives. 2016 has proven that though Americans may share similar cross-racial values, crossing the gap caused by America’s sad history of race-defined strife is larger and more fraught with danger than ever before.
Ultimately, the best solution moving forward is for Americans wanting to embrace a positive future needing first to embrace being “blue” or being “purple.” You heard it here, first. Blue or purple. Or purple-blue. Blue-purple? You get the point.
For those of us in America looking to sustain and survive what’s potentially on the horizon, let’s get in line at the crayon factory in order to camouflage ourselves against what’s unfortunately likely to come.
