Remember Pleasantville? That black and white world, where personal expression was a no-no? We all live there now, in what we used to call America.
The black and white people took back their country, and want everyone to live by their values. Well, guess what. A lot of us still live in color, still want to take back our world, the real world full of color and diversity and shared values, not imposed ones.
And just as those people started to see color, started to be color, we stand out, because we live on color. We will shine in this black and white world, and know each other because we are the ones who are vibrant and creative and paint and sing and dance. And dance we will
So get out your red dress, go dancing, live vbibrantly. Paint your pictures, sing your songs, laugh, dance. We will not mourn in this place. We will celebrate life and being alive. We will bring our color to their black and white world, and while they might manage to make a few of us cover our colors in their gray, we will bring those people out again.
Celebrate, paint your pictures, dream in color. America will be back, bigger, better, more colorful than ever. We just have to get through some gray times first. Reach out to each other, love those you know and make friends with those you don’t, and let’s form our webs of friendship and strength to be even greater than theirs.
Pleasantville, your days are numbered. You’ll be color soon enough.
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