From the mind of critic: “When we’re at the coffeeshop in the morning, trying to to decide between light and dark roast, do we ever mix the two to make medium? Do we thoroughly enjoy the taste of light and dark together instead of medium roast, because the natural mixing of the two provides an authentic flavor that medium roast is unable to mimic? Or do we prefer a medium roast because the mixing has already been done, instead of us making the conscious decision to mix the two, which is the way we know society is trending, but would never choose ourselves? Whether we prefer lightness, darkness, mediumness or have no prefernece at all, we’re making choices about what kind of coffee we like, what kind of emotional outlook we utilize and the ethnicity of people we feel comfortable around. We run into trouble when we get hung up on type, instead of the actual thing itself. If we like coffee we should drink it, no matter what type it is. Whether we do or don’t understand our emotional outlook, we should always build ourselves up, no matter what shade of consciousness we come from. If we like people, we should treat them with dignity, respect and love no matter what their melanin level is. Having preferences isn’t inherently a bad thing. We just have to be careful those preferences don’t hurt, harm or hate others, based on ignorance we can never fully define. Mixing, matching and creating is what makes life interesting, and what keeps our species evolving. The less judgement and more understanding we carry, the more we move forward instead of backward” 🙂
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Profound metaphor. MB