The revelation of the social order creates a distinct memory. The experience is etched in the cornerstone of each life. Either it will be a life with the wind in your face adding resistance with every step, or pressing at your back, adding a lightness to each step.

Skin pigment does not reveal the character of the human wearing it, but rather the watcher's character. It is safer and more beneficial in the United States to live in a lighter pigmented skin suit.

The most visceral answers to this question are commonly from minority communities. A father forbids his boys from wearing hoodies or running through the neighborhood, because of what neighbors might think they see. The father is overreacting until the tragic story of Ahmaud Arbery hits the news cycle.

The remarkable inquiry is, why are those with lighter pigment not shocked and repulsed by the disparity?

Why isn't this group appalled at one's own baseless fear of a large darker pigmented man in a hoodie? Where is the critical judgment of the one in the mirror vice the unknown innocent?

What is just about using skin pigmentation as a measure of humanity?

Those with a lighter pigmentation are blissfully ignorant of the work required to overcome darker pigmentation. What are you doing about it today if you are lighter than others and understand the truth of unearned privilege?

Good questions are not purposed to coddle one's soul, but rather transform.