{"id":2339,"date":"2020-01-21T02:48:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notsosupermomvssociety.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:01:57","slug":"ending-an-era-of-colorblindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mail.notsosupermomvssociety.com\/ending-an-era-of-colorblindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending An Era Of Colorblindness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everett at Kelly Ingram Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>I was raised in an era of “colorblindness.” I’ve used overtired cliches such as \u201cI don\u2019t see color\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t have a racist bone in my body<\/span> more times than I can count. I truly thought I was “woke.”Guess what? I’m not.I’m part of the millennial white middle class that managed to minimize racism to the point where we can’t easily spot it. I’m the exact definition of “white privilege.”Let’s face it, teaching a child to be colorblind isn’t just a stupid idea, it’s dangerous. By doing the whole, ‘We’re the same,’ thing, you’re dismissing what a black kid or any person of color deals with.<\/span> Instead of tackling the hard truths of what racism is and how a person of color might have a different struggle than you, you teach them to ignore.I get it. Talking about racism is hard. No parent wants to tell their children that their skin color determines their place in society. And especially white colorblind parents don’t want to admit that racism is still just as prevalent today as it was 60+ years ago. Instead, we want to glorify leaders like MLK and talk about how amazing it was that they helped end segregation, and thus racism. We want to act like our white privilege doesn’t exist anymore.

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MLK Jr Birmingham Jail reenactment in the Civil Rights Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Civil Rights Movement Protest images in the Civil Rights Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Here’s the thing. If it didn’t exist anymore, why do we still feel that sense of unease when we discuss things like Black History Month or MLK Day? Or when our children ask why their friends of color are afraid of the police?\u00a0 Why do we lock our doors when we see an African American man walk towards our car? What about when we pull our children closer to us or don’t make eye contact when we are about to cross paths with people of color? Or when we make snap judgments of those who listen to rap music or wear clothes that don’t align with our sense of what’s “decent.”Simply put, white people, as much as we don’t want to admit it, are on some level racist assholes. There I said it. I addressed the elephant in the room. It doesn’t matter how “woke” we are, by default, we still have all the privileges of being white and we don’t seem to be in any hurry to try to share them.

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