Questions of colour 1
Why does the colour of human skin cause so much difficulty in the world? The two poems on this page address this issue in different ways, but with the same goal: to ridicule the idea that skin tint should ever matter. While these poems focus on white-on-black prejudice, bias runs much deeper. It is a symptom of a larger human habit of judging by appearances, which can even happen within communities as 'colourism'....