We are born White, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and just about every other color beneath the rainbow. Throw in mixed ethnicities and you have quite a melange of colors. I'd say that is pretty gosh darn cool.

So, when a politician or someone who wants your money tells you that society should be colorblind, I say "No!" We spend millions of dollars in taxpayer money and allow our politicians to make terrible laws to make us "equal" on paper and to what avail? We are no closer to everybody being the same than we were on Day 1. What we've lost is productivity, freedom, liberties, and opportunities to work together.

I am a believer that we are all created equal and have equal rights and responsibilities. I do not believe that we are carbon copies of each other with different skin tones and gender bits. We have things we do well and things we may do okay, but not well. But, to say that person A is doing well at something and person B is not solely because person A or person A's ethnic group is "keeping him down" is faulty logic.

We are different and that's okay. Instead of wasting time and money to brainwash the world into believing that we are all exactly the same, we should be saying Vive le Difference! Let us celebrate our differences and look for what we have in common.

The idea that we must conform to whatever political movement decides for us is to betray our individuality. If you are a black person and you and I (as a white person) are working together on a work project, rather than pretend like we don't notice that we are different, let us acknowledge each other's individuality, at least subconsciously, and find the common ground that lets us work together.

Prejudice is based on fear. Pretending that fear doesn't exist only takes away our power to deal with it.