What is a black person to a color blind world?

Have you ever discovered a place that makes you feel beautiful? That regardless of how you wake up, or how bad of a day you are having you just feel amazing? I honestly felt like a prized possession. I felt like a queen. I found the place all disney movies talk about where the princess has been taken away from home and everyone knew who I was except for me. Weirdly enough I enjoyed it. I didn't understand why so many tourists were approaching me in order to take a picture with me.

I am probably on more peoples refrigerators and photo albums than I can count. I was enjoying it so much that I was tempted to start charging for my picture and autograph. I would have made and extremely LARGE amount of money if I had done so and it was all just because of the way God Created me. Cancel out my voice because I did not talk to anyone. My voice was not what captured the audience. Cancel out my smile, other people were smiling. Cancel out my clothes because I was dressed in the same types of clothes as the group that I was on a tour with. It was strictly my appearance. My Brown skin tone and my Hair.

If I had to chose one place in the entire world that made me feel like I had everything, the one place in the world where I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I could stop Millions of people from sight seeing and become a moving attraction, a talent-less superstar, a gold metal winner of no competition, a world champion for just being me,it would be in the center of Tienanmen Square.

From the moment I stepped out of the bus there were tourist literally standing in awe. Holding their cameras up towards me, pointing their fingers, and smiling. While walking, trying to experience a tour, other tourist would walk up to me with a large smile on my face holding a camera. They would signal a friend to come take the camera from them and they would look at me and then take a picture. I literally became a tourist attraction by being the tourist.

I wonder if I somehow messed up their tour experience. I mean we were in a place most people have never been. Everyone was on a tour. I remember our tour guide had a little purple panda umbrella just so we could tell where she was at at all times. But I guess I was just as important as the location we were in. I feel I can literally connect with kings, queens, movie stars, and other people who are high in Media due to the effect that I felt from just touring Tienanmen Square.

I will say that it takes a special somebody with a positive personality in order to experience that amount of people approaching you while you are sightseeing. The experience didn't just stop there. It seemed like I had that experienced everywhere I went in China. It was just magnified by the large amount of people that were in Tienanmen Square. Even at the Oriental Pearl, while trying to overcome the fear of viewing Shanghai from a gazillion stories high, I noticed a large group of tourist staring at me. Most of the tourist that were in awe of seeing me were tourist from the hillsides. Darker Asians that rarely came to the city.

In my mind, they had only experienced me(a black person) in school books and/or once or twice on Television. Students who were practicing their English would approach me and ask where I was from. Mentally I would ask myself, Don't I look like an American. But I began to think. What does an American look like? How would you know if a black person is from America? I could be from Jamaica, Bahamas, America, Canada, England, or Anywhere, so how unfair of it for me to assume I looked like a Black American.

In turn, what made this experience one of the largest impacts on my life is that I could have in fact been from any one of those places that I named, and I would have still received the same experience just by my appearance. Not from my tone of voice. Not from anything else. So what if some days I don't fit what the American Society has noted as Beautiful. I will always have one place on Earth that I can go and feel like I am the most prized possession in the world.