I just wrote this: "Colourblindness claims to not *recognize* race: rather, it *refuses* to recognize the *claims* that race makes against historical and continuing structures of white supremacy.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @digiwonk
Yes! Colorblindness is another tool in the arsenal of white supremacy bc it is only those who perceive of thmslvs as having no color who can impose this, thereby erasing their own position in the racial hierarchy & denying the significance of colored bodies.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
how please they are though, holding hands to hearts, exlaiming, "I just don't even SEE race" as if everyone else is racist for, say, pointing out the rate of indigenous incarceration, for example.
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Oh yes. I had a student say that once and I responded, how lucky for you, but that’s not how Race works. It became an opportunity to dialogue and he was able to understand the erasure and power at the heart of such thinking. This was a long term effort.
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