White People

I received an email from a man who was offended by the Da Vinci Code movie. He was not offended by references to some bizarre conspiracy in the Catholic church. He was offended by The albino self flagellating monk Silas. Now apparently he is not alone.

http://www.skinema.com/DaVinciInsideEdition.html

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/05/22/da-vinci-code-offends-albino-community/

The Albino community is offended by the portrayal of albinos in movies as evil. What about people who are just really white. Is there discrimination against people because of the pigment (or lack there of) of their skin. Now we do have this idea which is perpetrated in movies that white people are evil. So the whiter the white man is the more evil he is. Check out the above links. The man who plays Silas is not a real Albino. They used white make up . Now apparently a real albino actor tried out for the part but he didn't look mean enough.

Now the man who wrote me may be an Albino or he may just be really white I don't know . Maybe it doesn't matter what matters is that he feels discrimination because of his lack of skin and hair color.

One day on the bus a little girl said " Look mommy its a ghost" People offer him a seat on the bus. People ask if he is ok or feeling ill because he is so pale. He says he wears dark glasses because he often gets a headache from the sun. He must cover up all of him in summer to avoid really bad sunburn. He does not tan no matter what. He tried the quick tan only to turn orange. He says most tanners rely on the skins natural pigment which he does not have. His eyes are blue but in all pictures they look really red, so people think he has red eyes. Which he doesn't. The black part of his eye is quite large. Sometimes he wears a hood like Silas to prevent his head from getting sunburned. He says that really hurts. People tell him Halloween is over. They think he is a Goth or some bizarre devil worshipper. Once a man grabbed his hand to help him on the bus because they assumed he was blind because of the dark glasses He says he can see perfectly well however he can't see into the future. Some people think he is some wizard with psychic powers or something. White skin does not give one psychic powers. Once he got together with some other white people he met on the internet and a car load of people shouted hate and obscenities at him. They thought him and his friends were Nazis or something just because of his skin. It was not his dress or anything else. Apparently there was a movie about some Aryan brothers and guess what the evil leader was  an albino looking man. In high school people thought he was a drug addict because of the pale skin, large pupils, dark glasses. Long sleeve clothes in the summer to cover all the supposed needle marks.  Now he says what's next for me do people think I am self flagellating monk from some religious cult.

Now what about the other extreme. Some black people have too much pigment they are literally black and look navy blue in the sunlight. Now they face the same kind of discrimination People think they are not as intelligent as lighter black people and they are often not giving the chance for an education. Now as evil is not determined by the whiteness of the skin neither is intelligence determined by ones blackness. Both are equally wrong.

As Martin Luther King said, we must judge people by the content of their character not these dumb pre conceived ideas we see in movies.

Sometimes black women are beaten for having a child with reddish hair, grayish eyes and lighter skin. They think she has been fooling with a white man.  This is not true black women can have albino children.