{"id":681,"date":"2007-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/which-one-is-more-colorful-white-or-black\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T22:09:08","slug":"which-one-is-more-colorful-white-or-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/which-one-is-more-colorful-white-or-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Which one is more colorful: white or black?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is common to call non-white people as colored ones. At the time we visited Venezuela, in one of the shops we noticed an interesting souvenir &#8211; framed text with explanation, which makes you to think: who is actually colored &#8211; white or black man?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a translation of black man&#8217;s monolog:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">RACISM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/followtheroad.com\/photos\/2007\/2007_venezuela\/caracas2\/IMG_4984.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/followtheroad.com\/thumb\/thumb.php?src=..\/photos\/2007\/2007_venezuela\/caracas2\/IMG_4984.JPG&amp;w=200\" \/><\/a>Dear white friend:<br \/>Here are couple of things you should know.<\/p>\n<p>When I was born, I was black.<br \/>When I grew up, I was black.<br \/>When I am in the beach, I am black.<br \/>When I get cold, I am continuing to be black.<br \/>When I am sick, I am black.<br \/>Finally, when I die, I am anyway black.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">IN COMPARISON, YOU, MY DEAR WHITE FRIEND:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When you are born, you are pink.<br \/>When you grow, you become white.<br \/>When you go to the beach, you are red.<br \/>When you get cold, you are blue.<br \/>When you are in panic, you become yellow.<br \/>When you are sick, you become green.<br \/>When you die, you become grey.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">And you still have the holy wish to call me COLORED!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Signature: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Black man<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is common to call non-white people as colored ones. At the time we visited Venezuela, in one of the shops we noticed an interesting souvenir &#8211; framed text with explanation, which makes you to think: who is actually colored &#8211; white or black man? Here is a translation of black man&#8217;s monolog: RACISM Dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","category-website"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}