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When did “a colorless society” become a bad thing?
I was watching an interview with a black man who disagreed with the Liberal positions about issues concerning race. The rebuttal person, a black woman, responded that he was married to a white woman, wanted to be white, and wanted a colorless society. She said this as if it was a negative thing. Isn’t that what we should strive for, a society where color doesn’t matter at all? So when did Martin Luther Kong’s words, “not judged by the color of their skin” become a negative?
Sorry, Martin Luther KING’s words
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- 2 months ago
When people say “colorless society,” they imply that it should not exist. That we should pretend that external differences don’t exist and don’t matter. But that denies reality.
Our problem is that we too often inappropriately consider skin color or races. We wrongly judge its meaning.
It’s perfectly okay for someone to recognize someone’s racial differences. It’s okay for individuals to have subjective preferences or opinions.
There’s nothing wrong with someone preferring to date someone who looks similarly (or differently) because that’s their subjective opinion of beauty. It would be wrong to prefer that because they believe other races are somehow inferior people.
It is wrong to judge a person’s value based on race. To say that race should be considered when only skills or merit should be. Or to believe that race determines a person’s beliefs or behaviors.
It’s okay to say you like or dislike someone’s attractiveness, for example, but not that they are (or aren’t) qualified for a job. It’s okay for people to feel more comfortable around people who look more like themselves, it’s not okay to assume people who look differently must therefore think differently.
We shouldn’t strive to ignore colors. We should just stop connecting it to human worth.
