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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
i hear the term 'color blind society' thrown around a lot by someone on my school's pipeline (an uber-neocon) whenever affirmative action and other entitlement programs come up. i got to noticing that i really seem to only to hear that phrase from conservatives, people who are anti-affirmative action.
my question is this:
what is a color blind society and why do we want it?
i really don't understand that so i'd like to hear your opinions on this.
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Well here's a decidedly more liberal guy who buys into that concept.
We complain and complain that when we see a black person the first thing we think of is the color of their skin, yet we then have federally mandated programs that REQUIRE employers to consider the color of applicant's skin in order to meet racial quotas.
Besides, fixing a wrong (judging people based on the color of their skin) is never justifiably corrected by using the same wrong.
Let's remember MLK did not say he had a dream about a society where the government forced people to hire minorities regardless of qualifications. He said he had a dream that people would be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. We must have a colorblind society in order to realize that dream.
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Originally Posted by meembo
I don't believe that "color-blind society" means anything. It suggests an unfocused ideal, without specifying any benefit. Moreover, in the phrase, color is inferred to be a negative thing (something to which we need to be "blind"), which is ridiculous in and of itself.
The assumption is apparently that darker people (of "color) receive disproportionate benefits due to their "color". Lighter-skinned people should therefore resent and eradicate those benefits.
Of course, race, religion, and class issues are blithely ignored when one focuses on color.
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You need to check the definition of colorblind. A colorblind person can still see. He won't ignore things that have colors. He just can't tell the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN the colors. In other words, it doesn't matter to him if something is red or green, it's all equal in his eyes. Doesn't sound like a bad concept to me. . . .
And on a side note, I'm really sick of people saying stuff like "yeah I was down in that neighborhood where all the black people live. . . I'm not racist or anything, I'm just saying. . . " Yes, if you make statements like that, you ARE racist.