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__"Im Blue. If I Were Green I Would Die"__
Racism is the problem of the decades. It doesn’t matter whether you’re white, black, blue or purple, racism exists in every form. Its impossible to trace racism to where it originated. It could have happened when an albino baby was born into an African family or when the first white person laid eyes on an a Native American. One will never know the origins of racism; what we know is that it is alive and causing problems today. The reason racism is thriving could be that there is such diversity in our world. No two people are alike and everyone formulates their own unique opinions about certain issues that could contrast with other peoples ideas. Many people have tried to solve this issue by creating laws of protection and allocating fines of punishment for those who challenge someone’s place in society, but they have failed because no one person can force someone to change their religion, opinions or ideas. Also, no one can change the color of one’s skin.

A quick and easy solution to this epic problem would be to paint every person blue, like the Blue Man Group. The Blue Man Group is most commonly associated with Las Vegas, cool music and bald, blue heads. Everybody enjoys the group, whether it be yourself or your Indian neighbor. No one really knows what ethnicity the men are under the paint, so why not use their method to mask peoples skin color? Everybody would get along if they all had the same skin color. No one could accuse another man of being a terrorist because that person himself would look almost exactly the same as the man he is accusing.

In this time and age it is not rare to see some people display their preference for their own race as opposed to others. In 1866, shortly after the conclusion of the Civil War the Ku Klux Klan emerged, with its major goal to keep equality out of the states. Ironically, their method of covering their faces kept them from prosecution, which is the method everyone will use merely to cover the color of their skin. If everyone were to have been painted blue in this time, this notorious group would have never been established, for they themselves would not know who to accuse of being black. By using this same method in similar world problems many massacres and genocides could have be avoided simply by covering people in blue.

Recently in California the issue of immigration has been a highly spoken of topic. Many people blame California’s giant debt on immigrants who come to this land of the free. To hide their racism they use facts grabbed from any source, credible or not, to strengthen their point. Though its fine to back up one’s answers, many go to the next level and leave justifying their answers to offensive comments. These certain comments and racist thoughts could be eliminated if everyone were to be painted blue. No, it would not solve the problem of those hopping our borders, but it would eliminate those whose only reason to care about the immigration issue is their heated racism. The only people who would be left to care about this issue would be those of rational thought and background information to support their cause.

Many could say that there are those certain characteristics that are attributed to certain races, but one would have to be looking awfully close to see something so insignificant. To solve the eye color issue everyone would be required to wear contacts of the same color. If contacts do not fool society sunglasses must be worn by everyone at all times, even at night until people are in the safety of their own homes. As for beards and other facial hair that can distinguish ones race, they will all be shaved completely off. For nose shapes everyone will be assigned molding putty which will be shaped into circles before being affixed atop their original noses. As not to break the Blue Man tradition, everyone must wear long black t-shirts and pants. Those who fail to comply with the new dress codes will be ostracized to Greenland where they will be under constant supervision and without the privileges of technology.

With such a lack of diversity, racism could never survive in these blue conditions. Every person on the earth would have the same appearance and that symbiotic world that everybody dreams of would finally be created. People would be valued for their brains and personality instead of their skin. Racial barriers would be a thing of the past. Every president would be a blue man. The Ku Klux Klan would be out of a job and there would be billions of gallons of blue latex paint used every year.

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