#race-blind

[viv-id-lee]

madhattie3 replied to your post“Lately, I’ve been hearing things such as “it doesn’t matter; we all...”

That's kind of like saying you're colour/race blind ><

Well, considering that most of those times were directed towards me, I can safely say that you're right on the money. X'D

[viv-id-lee]

Lately, I’ve been hearing things such as “it doesn’t matter; we all bleed the same” and “it’s what inside that counts”

Which I’d readily accept… if the society that we live in wasn’t so judgmental. :P

[tornbread]

Similarly, I did not know that a person at my office was black until I asked him, “Are you black?” I knew there was something different about him, but because I am so race-blind, I just couldn’t put my finger on it until I asked. Plus, he always wore really expensive suits to work, which I thought was something only white people did. I was thrilled to learn that he was black, because I have always wanted a black friend, so I asked him if he wanted to chillax at my cribizzle on Fridizzle, and then he reported me to HR and now I no longer work at his company. Funny things like that are always happening to me because of my inability to see race. For instance, how I like to tell race jokes when I am with white people, but sometimes I forget that a color person is there and no one laughs. Or, how I like to tease my white friends by jokingly calling them racial slurs, but because I cannot distinguish between my white friends and my color friends, sometimes I accidentally call one of my color friends a word which sometimes is the right slur for their race but other times isn’t. But in any case it explains why I do not have many ethnicity friends.

Christopher Man ("I Don't See Race" | McSweeney's)