Who decided what color Olympic ring stood for what land
mass/people? And why aren’t progressives protesting the obvious stereotyping
involved? Most of us know that the five famous rings each represent a specific region of the Earth
that sends contestants to the storied Games. But, let’s take off our
rose-colored glasses and have a closer look.
Blue
stands for Europe? Of course it does, with their Aryan-blue eyes and their blue
blood.
Black
stands for Africa. Couldn’t be more obvious than that!
Red for
the Americas? Yes, as the “real” Americans, the original inhabitants, are Redskins, like the football team in the
U.S. capital.
Yellow
for Asia? Naturally, the yellow man lives there.
Green
for “Oceania?” Nobody in the world- even in Oceania- could tell you what the
hell Oceania means or precisely where
it is. Most can’t spell it or properly pronounce it. It is generally considered
to encompass lots of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. There are lots of
trees and Muslims there, so green it is!
Still
not convinced that this is deliberate racism? In place of these openly hurtful
hues, I offer the following suggestions:
1)
One solution would be to arbitrarily, randomly
draw the five colors out of a hat, so-to-speak, and assign each in turn to one
of five envelopes containing the five regions represented. This way, even if,
say, Africa somehow drew black again, it would be documented that it was not an
intentional slur.
2)
We could just mix all the colors together and
then make all five rings whatever
color was produced by doing so.
3)
We could make the Olympic symbol just one ring. By dispensing with four
of the rings, we would make the clear statement that we are all together as
one. Moreover, we could make the ring contain all five colors of the former
rings, each covering exactly 1/5th of this new Olympic-sized “O.”
Ours.
Open. One. Overall. Optimum. Olympic. Yaaay!
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