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No. This is wrong. How does not “seeing race” make someone an ignorant asshole? What’s wrong with this is that it’s doing the same thing white people are doing, and if it’s wrong for white people, it’s wrong for all people. Fuck labeling myself or anyone else. I’m a human, my species has invented telecommunications, space flight, simulations of a human brain, and gone to the fucking moon. It sucks that ancestors were used for backbreaking labor without pay, but whites weren’t the only one’s that did it. I’m not saying that it was right, because the worst thing to do other than genocide. But Egyptians had slaves, maybe not in the massive quality as the whites, and that’s a huge fucking number, but it happened. The cop issue sucks so much it’s like an overgrown dyson vacuum cleaner, but that’s where we vote the people who will bring us change. It sucks to be a minority country, I wouldn’t understand the shit people have to go through and I’m sorry, but racism has to end for everyone. Otherwise the side will tip, and it will be the same thing just opposite. And is bringing someone’s pain and dropping it onto someone else the right thing to do? No, it isn’t. That’s what bullying is, and no one likes a bully.

The problem with saying “I don’t see colour” is two-fold: first, your belief that not “seeing” people for the diversity they represent makes you a good person. It doesn’t (and going about the world thinking you’re better than those who do actually makes things worse), The second part — and the crux of this matter — is that not seeing people for their diversity of backgrounds means you’re actively and consciously ignoring the (historical and current) context of their lives.

It’s akin to telling someone who was wrongly imprisoned for thirty years, “hey, you’re out of jail now, so stop talking about it!” As if ex-convicts are not discriminated against or stigmatized in society, including those who were wrongly imprisoned.

Don’t deny your white privilege. Acknowledge it and dismantle it.

You’re right, though. No one likes a bully. Which is why no one likes white people.

Also I love how these idiots are always like NON WHITE PEOPLE HAD SLAVES TOO and they drag up stuff that literally happened thousands of years ago but when black people talk about American slavery and its continuing impact on American blacks to this day thanks to the institutions that followed it (an incomplete list including the exclusion of blacks from the Homestead Act, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, and anti-drug laws among others) it’s always OH MY GOD THAT HAPPENED SO LONG AGO JUST GET OVER IT when American slavery was only officially abolished in 1865, which for those of you playing along at home who can do math, is just over 150 years ago. And they always act like the abolishing of slavery lead to instant equality for American blacks when yeah, look at our fucking history. As a country America has actively worked to stigmatize and devalue black people and white people (myself included) have benefited immensely from that. Drop your “colorblind” bullshit. White people are the only people who can afford to be “colorblind” and say things like “race doesn’t matter” because for us, it doesn’t. Too bad it’s not the same for everyone.

Reblogging for the commentary.

Also reblogging to say what I always say about “I don’t see color” which is: I get what you’re saying but no.  There’s nothing wrong with seeing color.  There’s nothing wrong with diversity.  Our differences make us beautiful.  See them.  Appreciate them.  Respect them.  It’s perfectly fine to see color just don’t be a dick about it.