What is colorism?

Colorism is a form of prejudice or discrimination in which people who are usually members of the same race are treated differently based on social implications which come with the cultural meanings which are attached to skin color.

Colorism is a bigger issue for women than men because of the relationship with beauty. The relationship encourages competition because lighter skin is often considered more beautiful.

Regardless of the prejudice degree — many people are suffering the color of their skin, rather than feel proud of it.

Most recently, reverse racism has also gotten the media attention. Whites, who have been historically privileged, feel left out when society is trying to level the field for minority groups. However, many social activists challenge this notion.

Color Blinded, not Color Blind
What we don’t know we don’t know, gets us into trouble.

Your biases are not evident to you. However, your blind spots are always visible to others, as I wrote here. Awareness is important but is not enough.

We are all human with equal rights and unlimited potential in life. Why can’t it be simple for us to accept that of each other?

Trying to end racism once and for all can seem like an insurmountable problem, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start.

What we can do is learn to be more accepting of different races, rather than pointing out the difference in one another or try and change it. We need to emphasize that Skin doesn’t depict ethics.

Our campaign is about the color insecurity of many people first of all for you to be able to accept the the true meaning of differences of one other you have to accept the real you because sometimes you are the big reason why some people discriminate your personality or your color many people tend to discriminate you because you allow them to do it that’s why you have to love your self to protect them from hurting you you have to tell them that you love what color you my have and you don’t really care what they think about your complexion

Our purpose
To help others overcome their insecurity about their color in complexion.

“A continuous eruption from Philippines’ Taal volcano was observed on Sunday, 12 January 2020, at around 1:00 pm. The powerful eruption sent an ash plume 10-15 kilometres (km) into the atmosphere and ashfall as far as Quezon city 65 km away, with volcanic lightning seen flickering continuously in the plume above the volcano. This prompted the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) to raise the alert levet to Alert Level 4 (hazardous eruption imminent).”

“Thousands of families are affected and caused lot of damages, resulted from the eruption of Taal on January 12, 2020.”

People are shocked to hear the news of Taal Volcano’s sudden eruption last January 12, 2020. People might be spending their time together, having fun, and chilling when it all happened. I was one of the volcano’s victims. As one of the victims, I would like to share my experiences with it.

12:30 p.m. when our family arrived from Batangas City. We were going home and just resting that time when the news of eruption occured. One of my friends sent to me that information and at first, I didn’t believe it. But then suddenly people are going outside and they were screaming about the large ash clouds rising fast above. The clouds are thick and isn’t that usual white clouds we see in the sky. White clouds seem to move slow in the air but ash clouds move fast, really fast.

If you were in my position, you would be terrified. But I wasn’t. I knew what to do. I didn’t panic. Panic is your worst enemy in these kind of disasters. I was kind of amazed to see those ash clouds. How weird of me.

We are away from the volcano’s 20 kilometers radius but our family isn’t really fine with it. Night fell and the volcano’s anger is really felt from the places far away from it. The sky is dark but everyone can see the ash cloud’s pink, red, and yellow lightning. Everyone could hear its rumbling sound and everyone is terrified of its earthquakes.

Those earthquakes are really strong and it could be stronger in the places near the caldera.

We couldn’t really sleep well about it until the next day came. Everything is covered with thick ash. Everyone is recommended to wear N-95 masks when going outside because the ash particles contains materials that are bad for the lungs when inhaled.

The classes are suspended and everyone is encouraged to stay at their homes. Everyone listened to the news about the possible events that may occur. Our family started packing our things in case of evacuation.

More days came and rescuers are coming to the places near the volcano to rescue other people. It caused traffic and another panic for people. Other people would spray water on cars with thick ashes to help the drivers in their driving. Other people donated clothes and foods. Evacuees stayed at our school for a long period of time.

But in that times of disasters, Batangueños always found their way to be happy and think that everything’s gonna be alright.