"If you don't see color, you don't see me" - This is possibly the best statement I've heard in a while. And it works for all identifying categories. If you don't see color/gender/religion/political affiliation/etc. you can't fully see who the people around you are and the forces at work that shape their lives - as well as yours. It's time we stop saying "we don't talk about" or "we don't see" certain topics. Doing so not only is a refusal to accept that related issues exist but supports the oppressors and further degrades the oppressed. I SEE COLOR! I SEE RELIGION! I SEE GENDER! And I see ALL the issues these categorizations affect and are affected by!
Wow, you guys really opened my eyes to colorblindness. People think that if you don't focus on someones race and just ignore it, that will solve colorblindness but in reality it actually doesn't make any difference. I know everyone on the stage looked fairly white (the half white, half Native American guy is a good example) but to someone who is colorblind, this might come of as offensive or even racist. More should be done to help people of color and Mexicans stand out to colorblind people. Segregation might be a good solution or maybe a badge that says their race in print.
When people say they are colorblind they are referring to treating the color of someone's skin the same as someone's hair or eye color for instance if I'm in a room of people and someone walks in who happens to be black I don't think to myself hey a black guy just walked in I would think to myself a guy just walked, in do I notice that his skin is black of corse I do but it's the same as if a blonde white guy walked in I would notice his hair is blonde but that's not what I would define him by because it's just a physical trait the general problem is there isn't a standard definition of racial color blindness I would argue that there is a such thing as positive color blindness like the example I just gave and negative color blandness an example of negative color blindness would be me thinking saying racial slurs is ok because I don't see race or thinking not talking about racism will make it go away.
When I say I am colorblind to race I mean I will not judge you based off of race. These people are portraying what a lot of people believe people mean when they say it. It is simply not true. I know racism exists, and I don't think it will just go away. This is a generalization of people who say this, and it paints the ones who use it like I do in a bad light. It makes me and others who don't mean it this way look as if we don't care about racism.
"If you don't see color, you don't see me" - This is possibly the best statement I've heard in a while. And it works for all identifying categories. If you don't see color/gender/religion/political affiliation/etc. you can't fully see who the people around you are and the forces at work that shape their lives - as well as yours. It's time we stop saying "we don't talk about" or "we don't see" certain topics. Doing so not only is a refusal to accept that related issues exist but supports the oppressors and further degrades the oppressed. I SEE COLOR! I SEE RELIGION! I SEE GENDER! And I see ALL the issues these categorizations affect and are affected by!
Wow, you guys really opened my eyes to colorblindness. People think that if you don't focus on someones race and just ignore it, that will solve colorblindness but in reality it actually doesn't make any difference.
I know everyone on the stage looked fairly white (the half white, half Native American guy is a good example) but to someone who is colorblind, this might come of as offensive or even racist. More should be done to help people of color and Mexicans stand out to colorblind people.
Segregation might be a good solution or maybe a badge that says their race in print.
When people say they are colorblind they are referring to treating the color of someone's skin the same as someone's hair or eye color for instance if I'm in a room of people and someone walks in who happens to be black I don't think to myself hey a black guy just walked in I would think to myself a guy just walked, in do I notice that his skin is black of corse I do but it's the same as if a blonde white guy walked in I would notice his hair is blonde but that's not what I would define him by because it's just a physical trait the general problem is there isn't a standard definition of racial color blindness I would argue that there is a such thing as positive color blindness like the example I just gave and negative color blandness an example of negative color blindness would be me thinking saying racial slurs is ok because I don't see race or thinking not talking about racism will make it go away.
wow! so deep, never thought about it this way. this is a beautiful message!
I loved this!
When I say I am colorblind to race I mean I will not judge you based off of race. These people are portraying what a lot of people believe people mean when they say it. It is simply not true. I know racism exists, and I don't think it will just go away. This is a generalization of people who say this, and it paints the ones who use it like I do in a bad light. It makes me and others who don't mean it this way look as if we don't care about racism.
I'm actually colorblind