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Jane Elliot on the absurdity and invalidation of claims of “Color Blindness” by white folk (via brazenbitch)
not to mention no one ever says this to White people. if you didn’t see me as black you wouldn’t feel the need to say it to ME, and not any other non-poc in the room, BECAUSE YOU WOULDN’T KNOW THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE.
(via theoceanandthesky)
I’m reading some of the reblogs to this and it seems like people don’t understand that it definitely goes beyond the superficiality of “seeing people as they are.” This is a challenge to “colorblindness.” When you tell a POC that you don’t see their skin color, you don’t recognize their struggle and the fact that there are so many institutions in this country that DO see their color and see it for the wrong reasons: to criminalize, to dehumanize, to target, to persecute, to bar from jobs, to terrorize… Seeing someone’s skin color doesn’t open the door to judgement - that is a conscious choice. You don’t suddenly become elevated in the “hierarchy of goodness” by denying me the color of my skin or not embracing me as I come - your invalidating my experiences is just as bad as the jerkfaces that create the douchiness experiences that I have to face.
(via tranqualizer)
(Source: blck-grrl, via tranqualizer)
