who are you under the skin?

There is no correct political correctness

So I was amused to discover that the word Silly originally meant blessed . In about 300 years it had grown warts and carbuncles and had come to mean empty headed and simple minded  and foolish.

At one level one could say that say  that  those that are blessed are probably bereft of serious opinions, purely because they are so content and happy in their blessed state that they need not the cares and woes of deep thought.

Be that as it may, I said to myself that words change their meaning based on their present social milieu and context.

Gay is an obvious word: The Gay Caballero of 18th century Spain or Mexico was heterosexually virile. 

Queer was an oddity, not a disparaging epithet for gays.

Being lame, blind , deaf and dumb did not necessarily come loaded with either scorn or pity. 

And so to white, black, brown or yellow people. 

In the USA they are to be referred to as Caucasian, African American, Indian American or Asian American. The place  of origin is now more important than who they are in the present moment.

Anchored to the past it so hard to look Into the future as just a beautiful white black or brown  person.

I say let the skin speak and show how deep the beauty lies.