Sunday, January 10, 2010

A Solution to the Race Problem

So Harry Reid is having to apologize to Barack Obama now.
Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized on Saturday for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
I'm trying to figure out what the big deal is here. It's like any mention of skin color forces an immediate series of accusations and apologies. In view of that, I've got a proposal.

Let's eliminate all references to race and simply use 8-bit RGB values every time we want to mention skin color. Instead of light-skinned, Barack Obama would be "128-144-132 or higher." The Washington Redskins would become the Washington "200-154-143s." I think that would work perfectly. The conversations would be so incredibly confusing that no one would ever really know what anyone else was talking about. They'd be too busy translating RGB values into a color palette in their heads to ever take offense.

You're welcome.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

But we'd still have the language issue, and the white rappers could be a problem, yo, yo, y'all. Then we'd need to call in the vice president to determine if they're clean or should be working at 7-11 or what.

This is all very confusing.. need a better solution.

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Ohioan@Heart said...

The problem is all those people who see everything as 255-255-255 or 0-0-0. They just need to learn to see all the shades of n-n-n 0<n<255.