Black and White? The World Without “Technicolour”

bea barnes
2 min readMar 13, 2021

What if I told you we were now moving to a world of black and white?
You’re now entering Alice in Wonderland…and no, not the one with Judy Garland. The one with Viola Savoy. “Who even is Viola Savoy?”

September 13, 1917.
That’s when technicolour walked into our world. Films with the everyday color in it.
But what if, before 1917, that’s what life was like? Black and white and various shades of the two.

That’s how we’re treating the world. We act like it’s the “whites” against the “blacks”. If you simply treat racism like the white people are fighting the black people, you’ve gone into the first five minutes of WandaVision, disregarding every single color except black and white.

So let’s pretend that it’s really a world of black and white. Rulers, shampoo, soap, glass, ink, x-rays, popcorn — they all have wouldn’t exist. Hell, the world wouldn’t have Jennifer Lopez, Dwayne Johnson, Mother Teresa, Andy Garcia, several religions, everyday necessities. The world would be hopeless.

And let’s not even talk about mixed kids, right!?

The point of this is, everyone’s so focused on the obvious racism, about being “woke”, and avoiding being cancelled, that no one wants to see what’s so clear — the behind-the-scenes racism.

Stepping back into real life: if you’re going to act like the world is black and white, you’re delusional.
It’s a world full of colour, right at your fingertips, right under your nose, and you can’t even see it.

When are you going to wake up to it?

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bea barnes

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