… to the many blogs on the subject of anti-racism saying what I think, and every time I have either deleted most of the message, or simply backed out and posted nothing. I am uneasily aware that I may have managed to offend people anyway. But hey, I'm a little bit offended myself, so maybe that makes us all even.
I have learned, you see, during this blog against racism week, that many people of my aquaintance consider it a flaw that I am not racist. They use the phrase “color blind” which is utterly silly. I'm not in any way blind. I know what color you are…
…I just don't care.
I am supposed to care, apparently. I'm supposed to be aware that I am advantaged and privileged having been born, by the grace of god, white. I'm not sure why this is so important.
I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm advantaged — I'm apparently smarter than 98% percent of all Americans my age. And, yes, I'm “white” too.
This awareness changes nothing.
I will still make friends with you only if I actually like you, and will still dislike you if I disapprove how you behave, and I will continue to find your culture more significant than your appearance, and to respond to you as a person, not a phenotype. I'm still just as so called color blind as I ever was.
If this offends you, I'm sorry. But even after reading many the blogs on the subject and doing my very best to understand, every other way to be still strikes me as being [b]worse[/b].
No minority race can possibly achieve equal status with the majority if it is claiming for itself special privileges by merit of being a minority race. The very act of claiming special status precludes equality.
I am more than willing to help any individual deal with any sort of prejudice they are facing, be it racial, religious, or just because they wear the wrong clothes. But I cannot set myself to the task of setting apart any group of people and granting them greater good will because of what color they happen to be. I'm convinced that such an attitude does more harm than good.
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