Is Color Blindness Going Overboard?

I was doing work and I came accross this website: http://antiracism.fateback.com/images07.html

I noticed something that said, "Best friends forever, we dont see anything different why should u?" Aside from English that is even worse than mine the message is what struck me. Should we all be color blind? Can we all be color blind?

I know I am not color blind and I do know that I analyze everything too much and this is contrary to the whole idea of being color blind. However, am I being too hard on myself? I mean, I notice people that have different kinds of hair, different skin tones (like my super-whiteness), clothes, and ect. My friend Jarrod wears glasses and it would be a lie to say that I do not notice his glasses. I have come to a conclusion though: I notice differences, but I just do not care. I even make fun of differences, but still I do not care.

A running joke with my brother is that people with glasses are "smart and psychotic" and will kill you if you anger them. Of course this is just a sick joke and I see people with glasses I really do not think this. If I talk to a black person or an immigrant (evident by their accent), I notice there are pysical differences in speech and appearance, thus color blindness goes out the window, but still, I just do not care. It is the quality of the person and what they say I care about.

That is why I cannot stand when people watch what they say too much around "other people" in order to appear color blind. In reality, this is the antithesis of color blindness. I know there is a such thing as respect, I'm not going to tell the joke "What's long, black, and sweaty?" or anything like that, unless I know the person. I beleive on the most part non-whites are the same, but in this society it is more acceptable for minorities to poke fun or discriminate against the minority. However, I like racist sense of humor so I really do not mind. The line is crossed when white people are AFRAID to voice their opinions in front of those of different ethnicities.

I'm not going to name names, but this girl, let's call her Amanda, scolded my psycotic glasses wearing friend Jarrod for saying, "There shouldn't be a black national anthem" and then questioning how the hell it came into existence. You see, this was at a black student union dinner event, she came for the black people, I came for the food. They did not have any fried chicken or watermelon (two of my favorite foods besides japanese), but BBQ styled food is always good.

Back to the story. Amanda scolded Jarrod and then I told Jarrod that he should stop b***hing, it is not that big a deal. Furthermore, I said, "I'm sure they devised this national anthem at a national racism meeting or something." Jarrod saw the black national anthem as somehow taking away from the American national anthem, I did not, so fine, we disagreed. But in Amanda's mind, it was unacceptable to think there should not be such an anthem, how dare you offend all these animal nig- err African Americans, right? I do not care what you are, people have the right to hold non discriminatory beliefs and then say a remark to a friend about it. Amanda's attempt at being color blind is ironically almost 100% the opposite.

All people are equal so therefore b***hing about your beliefs in public should not cater to what public you are surrounded by. Furthermore, I do not think anyone can be truly color blind unless we all become blind. And even then, we will pick up on people's dialects and make assumptions from there. A funny example of this was a half black half french guy named Alex from my high school. He was the most conservative guy I knew and after an affirmative action debate (I debated for it), he went to me and said, "But blacks on average have lower IQ scores." So when you thought of him, you thought "white guy." So I have come to the final conclusion. We all notice physical differences, some people care, some people do not. When we know someone, we then fit them into other stereotypes that have nothing to do with their physical appearance. I know Jarrod wears glasses, but I think his personality is better reflected by the fact he bought a globe "to look smart" than the fact he wears glasses.

So is color blindness good? I guess it would be, but I doubt it exists. It is just that some people care that people are physically different and some people do not.

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