It's all a state of mind. Well if you didn't know, thats what StatMnd stands for. But at that time it took on a whole new meaning.
Black, white, chinese etc. Being black or white or any race is a state of mind. If you stand back and look at you're surroundings you'll see what I mean. You have white people acting "black" and you have black people acting "white". It's really interesting if you look at it from the outside in. We as people have infiltrated and come accustom to each of other's state of mind so well, that people can't label a person by color any more. How a person acts isn't just color alone, again it's their state of mind.
I had this epiphany one day while playing a video game, the likliness of all places.
The character, who was white said, "I'm tired of people poppin caps in the hood, man" and the black character said, " No matter how hard you try you'll never be black." then a third character said, "Black is a state of mind.". All sort of things went through my head and it all became clear at the point. Especially after really dissecting what he had just said and applying to the real world and what I see everyday.
No longer can the way a person act be attributed to what color they are, that explanation would have been fine some 35 to 65 years ago, but to be more definitive about it, think back to about 100 to 350 years ago, when hopping a plane to anywhere in the world wasn't readily available. Or speaking to someone from around the the world through your computer wasn't at your disposal. But then again to really know and become transmogrified, you have to be in contact with the state of mind in question.
If you really think about it, this is evolution at work all around us, nothing stays the same and nor should it. Everything has a place to go, in some cases it just takes time to get there.
What will the tendencies and persona of the people of different race be 50 or even 100 years from now? Will people still be labeled by color or will those phrases take on new meaning for how a person acts. Time will only tell. And that's a state of mind I wish to see.
