Is being "colorblind" really an answer?

What? No. That’s stupid.

For idiots, yeah.

Silly thought process. It would be like coloring all flowers in gray scale. Every person of every race should be judged on what they present to you at that moment in time or not at all especially not on the heels of what a race or society may have done or not done at any moment in time.

It seems to work for Stephen Colbert.

The best way to go, would be to base your thoughts about a group of people on the individuals themselves. In other words, the thoughts that are collected about a group of people, have a tendency to be less accurate than thoughts about a singular person.

Seeing everyone through black and white lenses and being colorblind are not the same thing.

…and answer to what?
and can you elaborate what you mean by black and white lenses
all people of all races should be treated equally
history shouldn’t be ignored
but the future needn’t have divisions based on race

No. Because thats impossible. Tell your friends to stop trying to avoid Human Nature and start acknowledging it. Their are different races and differences among all of us.

What do they want, to live like robots who are all the same? Nature wont allow it. Everyone CANT be equal. It is genetically impossible.

@ArtiqueFox Never in all of History as a Empire or Country survived when the Race/Ethnic group that created it became the minority. Think about it, long and hard, buddy.

@ChaoSS everyone should be equal politically and socially – genetics don’t need to be about racism or keeping the differences on some sort of pedestal…everyone isn’t genetically equal but that doesn’t mean there are races better than others out there

I’m not sure I really understand the question. Is it about whether we should ignore or acknowledge differences? Is it about how we define differences or similarities—how continuous a scale we want to use?

There are many interesting and important issues to talk about when thinking about the role that race plays in various societies. We could try to define what racism is. We could try to identify the impacts of racism. We could try to figure out whether racism has any notable effects. We could talk about our personal experience with race and racism.

So here we are asked if being colorblind is the answer. I suppose it could be—to the right question. Unfortunately, we have not been told the question to which being colorblind is the answer. It would be nice to know that question. Then we could make an informed opinion as to the aptness of the answer.

Well, perhaps. We are not really told what being colorblind means in this case. So, all in all, I’d have to say I’m somewhat disappointed. Race issues are very interesting, but we must have a focus if we are to say anything illuminating.

The ability to see the difference between two things is discrimination, by definition. So pretending you don’t see the difference is theoretically the only way to stop seeming to discriminate.

Awesomely, the opposite is generalization – seeing similarities among groups. When you combine discrimination with generalization, you get something along the lines of “All black people love Grape Drank™”. I don’t know what my point was, if I even had one.

I grew up in a large US city. If I had not learned early in life to run from angry black racists, I would have become dead, many years ago. I’m glad I was not colorblind. I’m glad I learned to run from those criminals.

We’re not going to spend our lives being a colour.

Just consider people on their own merits, not on the merits of a larger group.

The ideal situation in my opinion would be if we could all embrace our own and each others differences whilst not being prejudice towards those differences.

I am colour blind. What was the question?

Only white people in the U.S. get to claim they are “color blind.” How this comes across to me is, “I get uncomfortable thinking about my white privilege, so I would rather not hear about race and pretend that I don’t see it. Because, ya know, we had MLK and Civil Rights, so it’s all over now!”

headdesk

I am mixed race and I can’t help seeing race and skin color and thinking about racial dynamics all the time. And I am fairly certain this is the case for other non-white folks as well.