Distrust (edit2, title chg)

[dukealien]

Edit1;

Race

Black clouds no less than white or pink,
Beijing sienna, sandstorm-brown,
can block the light of Heaven.

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Thanks to all the critics, very good advice which I've applied in this edit (though I couldn't quite shake out the urge to give a hint as to the subject in mind - see below - but the original title was vapid anyway).

@RiverNotch - Good 1, we don't think of pink clouds as opaque, but they are - just lit from below, sometimes by a sun that's already set or about to rise (and a variant of white).

@Mahjong - The "no less than" construction is a bit archaic and convoluted, true.  It was meant

as an over-the-shoulder slingshot at the now almost-gone US president and the undeserved halo he received solely for the (approximate) color of his skin... and probably still will be, despite his now-proven comprehensive vileness.

"[S]andstorm brown" is intended to bring in the desert (Semitic/Arab) peoples as also capable of blocking Heaven's light individually, perhaps it should be on its own line to prevent the association you made.

@everyone - Does the message still get through without the fourth line?  It seems to me that without some hint at context it fails to bite, like the famous Meiji/Showa

Methinks all the people of the world are brethren, then. Why are the waves and the wind so unsettled nowadays?