Color blindness blog quotes

 "How did they treat you?"

This question is asked by many BIPOC people, when they go into white spaces because we are not always made to feel welcomed. We do not get the joy of just being because we will be treated differently based on believed stereotypes and America's history. 

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Now I have this thought experiment 

that I play with myself, when I say, 

imagine if I walked you into a room 

and it was of a major corporation, like ExxonMobil, 

and every single person around the boardroom were black, 

you would think that were weird. 

But if I walked you into a Fortune 500 company, 

and everyone around the table is a white male, 

when will it be that we think that's weird too?" 

This quote is similar to what I ask, what makes the ghetto the ghetto? The difference of trailer trash and ghetto is still racially motivated. The fact that we can't picture a group of Black people as a positive thing is a long history of colorism and racism that make these ideas seem impossible. When honestly it should be weird that only white people hold so much power. If we have evolved, then we should be upset with the current system and how it continues. This quote alone emphases the issue with color blindness and how we want to act like it's no longer an issue, but it is because we question and can't imagine groups of BIPOC communities succeeding.

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So I think it's time for us to be comfortable 

with the uncomfortable conversation about race: 

black, white, Asian, Hispanic, 

male, female, all of us, 

if we truly believe in equal rights 

and equal opportunity in America, 

I think we have to have real conversations 

about this issue. 

We cannot afford to be color blind."

The uncomfortable conversation is something I practice in; we need to be able to allow those we don't understand and agree with to talk and the same for the other side. We isolate others when we impose a way to react or behave. We allow more in when we welcome discomfort from others and work with each other to grow out of the discomfort and not ignore it. There is a reason sides feel the way they do, if we agree with it or not isn't the solution. The solution is what's next to correct it that works for all and that means still allowing discomfort. equality is currently not equal and that means the solutions isn't equal as well.