I'm guilty of raising a 'colour-blind' child. I remember being very pleased about this when she was about 6. Someone knocked on the door. 1
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She looked out of the window & said it was our (white) neighbour. It wasn't. Was a black man of same build & baldness selling windows. 2
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I asked her if she didn't notice they had different skin colours & she genuinely didn't. Realised how 'learnt' racism is then. 3
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But this would now be seen by some as a terrible failure on my part not to bring her up with an awareness of race. This makes me sad. 4
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I'm a terrible colour-blind lib but racism wld be gone in a generation if every1 raised kids not to notice race specifically.
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I've seen bits & need to try to find it again for an essay I'm writing. If you have some at fingertips, cld you link me?
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