Color Vision, Skin Color and Politics.
By: Debesh Choudhury
Tags: Animals, Politics, Color Vision, Humans, Colors

Color Vision and Color Politics

Video by Robert Arango Lopez from Pixabay

Color is not an object that can be captured by a sensor. Color is a perception that our brain perceives after processing the visual signals sensed by our eyes. But politicians often conceive an evil vision around colors.

All animals don’t possess color vision capabilities

Can you see all colors in the video of the bird on the cover? If you can do it, then we can say that your color vision capability is okay.

The animal brain can differentiate different colors by analyzing the visual signals sensed by the eyes. Some animals don’t have proper eyes.

That makes a great difference in how they perceive the other living beings surrounding them. All animals can’t see colors similarly.

Sensing and discriminating color signals is a technical capability of the eyes

Mantis shrimps can see visible as well as invisible wavelengths. Most birds don’t possess color vision. The reptiles can mostly see in the infrared.

Some butterflies can sense ultraviolet bands of light. Human eyes have color sensing cells in the retina that can sense red, green, and blue signals.

In the case of humans, women possess superior color vision capability than men

Men and women have got different color vision capabilities. Did the supreme creator make some gender discrimination? The reality is that women have got superior color vision than men.

Women have got more color sensing cells in the retina of their eyes. So women possess better color vision than men. Probably that is the reason women spend more time choosing the color of dresses or any other things.

Late Professor H. John Caulfield and I discovered artificial color perception under microwave illumination

Inspired by American Scientist Late Professor H. John Caulfield’s research on artificial color perception, John and I found a new way of sensing visual colors under microwave illumination.

We sensed visual colors under microwave bands by analyzing the sensed microwave power via a vector network analyzer. We could successfully discriminate red, blue, and green colors.

Humans enjoy the power of color vision

It is now understood that color vision is a special capability of some animals, such as mantis shrimp, humans, butterflies, birds, etc. Humans appreciate the color of the animals, birds, flowers, and other living beings on the planet.

Every morning we adore the bright Sunlight after a good sleep in the dark of night. We write romantic poems about red roses. We enjoy musical creations with lyrics about the blue sky. We recite poems about the twinkling stars in the night sky. We capture and appreciate photos of eyes of different colors.

Humans don’t always have a choice over colors

We prefer or discriminate against some colors in our lives. We have the right to choose an earthly object of the color of our choice. But we don’t (and never) have any choice over our skin color.

We inherit our skin color through our genes and heredity. Darwin had explained how the traits and characteristics flow from generation to generation. That is an interesting subject we often read in our life sciences curricula.

Can’t humans enjoy as they are, and without mentioning skin color?

Do we always need to be self-conscious about our skin color? In my humble opinion, when I self-declare my skin color, I also point towards the skin colors of other humans. Do I hint to prefer or discriminate their skin color?

I may be having a certain tone of my skin color. That is my natural possession. Let our skin color not always be mentioned and show any preference/discrimination against certain tones of colors.

Politicians tend to utilize color, ethnicity, language, nationality for their business, i.e., vote bank!

Should we give the politicians to play with our natural human traits? My skin color, language, ethnicity are my own possessions that I inherited from my forefathers. I don’t let the political parties play with my human traits.

Let us make it clear that all humans are the citizens of this planet by birth. We must get the basic facilities of life. All humans must get that without any preference or discrimination of skin color, language, ethnicity, religion, place of birth, etc.

Don’t permit the politicians to make the skin color a sweet spot for election campaign

We should not be the prey to the evils of “color politics” that has been in place for election campaigns. After the political parties win the election, they carry on with the same crimes they committed in the past.

Just think it over, my friends. Should you give the political parties the power to play with your personal traits? Or would you ask for equal rights for all humans without any discrimination or preference? The choice is yours.