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“Can’t we all get along?”
- Rodney King, 1992, in a press conference; in conjunction with the Los Angeles riots (which caused an estimated $1B damage)
An e-pal recently forwarded this to me:
Here was the accompanying caption:
“Ying Ying and Le Le, two giant pandas who finally got into the mood after 13 years of living together in a Hong Kong zoo. The two members of the famously low-libido species mated this week, a cause for celebration in the animal conservation world.”
My immediate response was one of delight.
Glad for pandas, in that they are no longer considered an endangered species. As of 2014, they numbered 1864.
Glad for humans, in that there will be hopefully more pandas for us to enjoy.
As I viewed the photo, something else struck me: these animals are black and white. And they seemed to have no problem with that.
They can distinguish both grey tones and color.
I am unaware that members of the animal kingdom exhibit discernible prejudice based on color (white is considered an amalgam of all colors, black the absence of color).
Prejudice seems to be an acquired, learned phenomenon unique to humans.
