Just recently, on two different occasions, I was questioned about my political inclinations because of an orange T-shirt I wore one day, and a green jacket I had been wearing on another day.
As such, I thought it might be reasonable to point out to the public that colours do not determine what I think or believe, or even how I will vote.
Please, don’t judge me by what I am wearing. The clothes, or, more precisely, the colour of the clothes I wear, are not an indication of my political inclinations. When I wear orange, please don’t decide that I am NDP; likewise, when I wear green please don’t consider me a Green Party member. Or blue, or red, etc.
Orange also happens to be “the Dutch” colour, and it has been the Dutch colour a lot longer than it has been the NDP colour. Now, in spite of the fact that I happen to be of Dutch descent, that is also not why I wear orange. I simply happen to like the colour.
So please don’t judge me or decide you know more about me than you do by the colour I happen to be wearing. Thank you!
Jan Korvemaker
Parksville