What's wrong with the world, mama?

I read a news today that really sadden me... I sure you all have read the news, about the lip-syched incident in the Olympic. How a 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched the national anthem "Ode to the Motherland".

Was shocking that how can a country openly tell the world, tell the children of the world that, "doesn't matter how talented you are, but you can be denied just by your look" What are we teaching the children today?

As a kid, I grew up in an environment where I was denied of a lot of opportunity merely because the way I look. I remember the face of my teacher when she told me that I could not take part in a competition because of my skin colour. I was only 10 years old then. I cried. I could not understand why? I was good. I was talented. I don't understand why could not I compete just because I am darker then my other school mate. How could anyone understand why??

Since then, I realized, that people are "skin" deep. I work very hard to prove myself. I have to put in the extra to make a point a across, that the colour of my skin should not matter.

Over the years, I grew up and the colour of my skin doesn't matter anymore. or does it? Why every time I turn back, i still see the little girl that is crying along the school hall way? Why is that image still brings tears to the eye? Why the sense of rejection still feel so clear?

And I look at the little 7 year old girl today, and I am thinking, How did her parents tell her? How did the officer tell her? "girl, you are probably the best 7 year old singer around, but we can't choose you to represent the country cause you are not cute enough?" I am baffled. Who are you to tell a 7 year old girl that?

People say you get over it. No, you won't. You will be surprise that how much a 7 year old can remember. I still remember the teacher that called me the"black" one in my second grade and I was only 8.

I am upset about what I have been through as a kid. And I will never ever want another kid to go through what I haven went through. But now, I am angry! I am angry on how a country is teaching their children. How can you do that to a child? How can we teach a child that looks does matter? How can we teach a child that, as long as you look good enough, you can get it all? What kind of message are we sending to the world out there?

This Olympic probably has one of the best opening ever. However, when this is done with price of a child, the message of Olympic to promote mankind... seems to me.. its a joke!