<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;" class="">'Colored’ </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">The Spanish cognate ‘<i class="">colorado</i>’ </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">looks</i> like it means ‘colored’ </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">but in reality means ‘red’ </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">and triggers images of love, </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">perhaps, maybe of blood. </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">Applied to the skin this color</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">used</i> to mean, ‘an Indian’, </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">another racist designation that </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">has fallen out of use which now </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">means ‘a person born in India’. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">Native Americans <i class="">did</i> in fact </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">come here from Asia, an origin</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">that until recently could get </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">them classified as ‘yellow peril’,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">understood to be referring </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">to ‘people from the Far East’,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">actually, from here, far West.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">Some original indigenous </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">tribes migrated farther south </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">into the world we know </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">as Latin America, although </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">the language this implies </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">is not what’s spoken there </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">by the inhabitants called ‘brown’</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">—by some, ‘the noble race’—</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">indeed, ‘people of the earth’.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">Tellingly, however, none </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">of these groups <i class="">self</i>-identify </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">by the colors Europeans </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">from the other side of Iceland</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">painted them.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""> Consider how</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">our forefathers flee hunger, </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">persecution, write treatises </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">and speak <i class="">sin-cere-ly</i> about </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">freedom…then found it on </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">white privilege…whereupon </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">the shackling roots of slavery </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">reach deeper into every mind.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">In my lifetime ‘black’ people </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">worked hard to counter many </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">‘evil’ connotations of their color </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">and they affirmed it’s ‘beautiful’. </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">Alas. It keeps on meaning, </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">‘I can’t breathe.’</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">But finally today, we are bearing </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">witness to a moment that our newly </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">great George Floyd has given us</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">when Martin Luther King’s content </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">of character stands forth from its granite </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">as if quickening his Dream of Promise </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">so I say here and now to you that</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">I believe we <i class="">will</i> get there </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">to where the knee of justice </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">on the neck of brutality </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">breaks the back of racism </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">with liberty once and for all</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class="">thus together let us get to work.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bill Greenwood</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></body></html>