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Did Michael Sam's Kiss Cause Colorblindness?
Did Michael Sam's Kiss Cause Colorblindness?

I heard them behind me. "Eehehh!" they said quietly. I glanced over my shoulder and saw two white girls responding to an interracial kiss on the screen. I presumed in the darkness of the movie theater, they did not notice my color. Or perhaps what they saw on the screen prompted their involuntary spontaneity. Anyway, it was years ago and I would not venture to guess whether they, who I guessed were in their teens, still feel the same about an interracial kiss today. What repels us, what makes us uncomfortable, what makes us avert our eyes and shield our children is not the same as it once was. Once was the time that black lips kissing white would unlatch the red gates...