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quick excerpt from a paper i wrote...
colorblind people are those who do not see racial differences, even when race is being constructed and deployed to repress people. They will blame minority group members for focusing on the hurts of the past, and for not participating in the supposedly discrimination free present.
basically, it's a technical term to describe something very negative. the study i based that paper on (Burkard and Knox, 2004), saw that if a color blind pyschologist was given a situation where a freshman was having problems fitting in, they more frequently blamed the person for wrongly perceiving racial discriminatiopn. if the freshman was white? the colorblind shrinks were more likely to tell the patient that the other students were responsible. Exact same wording, exact same letter. And these people knew that they were participating in some kind of study. Even that level of self awareness and training was not enough to counter the problems of being tone deaf to racial issues.
Racism and other forms of discrimination are subltle, hard to deconstruct, and trying to take shortcuts, or just declare premature victory....it doesn't work.
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