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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is the Color Blindness defense that is so often employed to avoid any actual introspection. It's like saying, "Everyone should be treated like the rich. If we start treating everyone like they're rich, things will be better because the ultimate fix for poverty -- which sadly won't occur until long after we're all dead -- is no one being poor." You cannot ignore the reality of people's actual existence and just act like things aren't the way they are as an effort to effect change.
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I'm not offering mutually exclusive ways of viewing racism and ethnic bigotry. I'm offering complimentary views.
Practically, everybody needs to recognize the obvious fact that racism and ethnic bigotry make minorities into second class citizens.
Ideally, conceptually, however, I believe it is not only fair but important to say that, while we must take that practical step, the ultimate goal must always be color/ethnicity-blindness.
The former's necessary in the immediate, the latter the long term goal. And inevitably, the latter is how it will all get fixed. Ten or fifteen generations from now people here are going to have blended so much that the noticeable physical differences on which we've arbitrarily and unfairly judged people will be slight to the point that recognizing them at all would seem odd.
