In the land of Utopia lived the Blues and the Yellows.  The Yellows had enslaved the Blues centuries earlier and over time the Yellows had built the great Primary Nation where the Blue and Yellow lived separate and unequal lives.  Over time the Yellows came to be ruled by a small business sect of Yellows called the Yellow Ogres who ran everything in Utopia including the lives of the Yellows.  It is here where Part II begins.

Although most Blue and Yellow lived in the great nations of Utopia, a great number of Yellows chose to stay in the lush hills and valleys outside of the great cities.  They lived there with the Magenta, Crimson and Red and the Blues who managed to escape the clutches of the initial Yellow horde.  These free thinkers became known as the “Rainbow Children” and as Yellow and Blue intermarried a generation of Greens emerged.  There were Greens of all hues: Dark Greens, Light Greens, Yellow Greens and Blue Greens all unbeknownst to the Yellows and Blues locked behind the fortress walls of Primary Nation.  

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." - Muhammad Ali

While the Greens enjoyed relative peace, as with any oppressive society, the conditions in Primary Nation worsened for the Blue to such an extent that they staged a revolt.  They didn’t kill the Yellow people who had enslaved them for generations; instead they collectively agreed that they would not mine any more silver rocks unless their conditions were improved.  As centuries had passed from the original enslavement of the Blue, many Yellow didn’t see a problem with giving the Blue some better conditions and maybe even a few silver rock mines of their own, but the Yellow Ogres were having none of it. 

Even in Utopia there are problems

You see by now the evil Yellow Ogres controlled everything.  They were bigger, uglier and meaner than the regular Yellows and these Ogres controlled all the major businesses.  The heads of these businesses were the called "Chief Executive Ogres" or "CEOs" . The Blues had no rocks so taxing them was useless, but the Yellows were well off and ripe for the pickings.  Over the generations the Yellow Ogres and their CEO leaders had systematically been taxing and overcharging the regular Yellows, slowly collecting their extra silver rocks (their prized currency) and stripping away their rock encrusted trinkets.  To make matters worse, the Ogres had created laws to fill their factory lots with even more silver rocks while taking rocks from the schools and the community coffers.  They robbed the building funds so the roads and bridges were in disrepair.  They even stole rocks from the rock brokers!  Things got so bad in Primary Nation that many of the Yellows lived in conditions that were no better than the Blues.  Meanwhile the Blues had found little secrets to garner favor with the Yellow masses by entertaining them through sport or song.  Some Blues, through sheer will and determination broke the color barrier and created businesses that garnered them their own silver rocks and a pretty good living. 

So under these circumstances The Great Uprising began, with the Blues sending their demands to the Yellow Ogres who ran everything.  The Yellow Ogres took the Blue demands to their annual OgreFest for review and consideration.  The OgreFest was held, as always, at Corporatus the inner sanctum where the Yellow Ogres lived. Only the richest business owners lived in Corporatus and regular Yellows were not allowed.  Of course Blues weren’t either so the Yellow Ogres kept their stockpiles of silver rocks and fish and fruit to themselves, always hording more and more that they stole from the regular Yellows, Blues, Magentas or anyone they could steal from or trick. 

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

As soon as the OgreFest was called to order, one particularly obstinate and smelly Ogre named WellsFargiTon cried out “Fuck the Blue People”.  Another pig-faced Ogre named ConCastiKa chimed in “And Fuck the Red People too!”  A third particularly fat and hunchback Ogre named HolliBurTin added “Yeah, and screw any Yellow who does not support us.  We Ogres need to eat and any Yellow who does not stand with the Ogre is an enemy to the Nation”.   These greedy and uppity CEO Ogres clearly did not want to give any ground to the revolting Blues, and since they knew they could trick and confuse many of the Yellows of the Nation they were not worried about the Blue Uprising. 

So it was with this backdrop that the Ogres returned their answer to the Blue's demands: “Hell no Blue People. You get nothing from us.”  “Yellows, we CEO Ogres control the Nation and its politicians, we make the laws and we make them this way to make us Ogres richer.  You know it is better for you Yellows that us Ogres are rich so just go back to your homes and let us take care of this.  By the way bring us a few rocks for our inconvenience for having to deal with those crazy Blue people and the insolent Yellows who doubt our RePublaKin ways”. 

Things could not look any bleaker for the poor blue people.  It seemed clear that the Ogres ruled the day, the Blues would always suffer and the good Yellows were on their way to a dreadful existence.  Just when you thought it was over for them all, a faint green light shone down from the hillside…

The Conclusion tomorrow...

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