Hufflepuff: I bet I could fit the whole world in my hands!
Slytherin: Hufflepuff, that's physically impossible.
Hufflepuff: *cups Slytherin's face* Are you sure?
Slytherin: *blushing* Stop it, I have a reputation.
La esperanza de vida es cada vez mayor, pero la vida de la esperanza es cada vez más corta.
Santiago Kovadloff
It's March 2021.
Breonna Taylor was murdered by the police on March 13, 2020.
Breonna Taylor has not received justice.
White diamond believed she was off color or imperfect because she was Blushing- showing emotions or feelings. The reason her controlees were completely white and had no facial expressions or lively movements was because she believed those were irregular and therefore Imperfect. She couldn’t comprehend that anything beyond what is exact and pristine is still perfect in its own way.
Blue and yellow were not perfect like her because to her, they had too many emotions or connections (yellow to blue, and blue to pink) that brought on their weakness.
She doesn’t even realize that it was possible for her to BE imperfect until Steven threw off her plans and actually was able to easily brush off her powers- she felt embarrassement and confusion, which was why she blushed. She recognized it as being off color, but Steven begins to show her that she needs to get out of her head, and feel, experience, see things for the way they are and the way they should make her feel.
Look at how proud yellow is of herself for making blue laugh- white is observing the interaction and actually begins to let herself feel happy and proud too. Maybe this happiness is a “perfection” as well.
Historic Black and White Pictures Restored in Color
Women Delivering Ice, 1918
Times Square, 1947
Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862
Marilyn Monroe, 1957
Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)
Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945
Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942
Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919
Painting WWII Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942
Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935
My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.
A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness - they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)
Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.
Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.
Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.
But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.
Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.