{"id":3343,"date":"2007-05-03T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/03\/the-angry-black-woman-on-color-blindness-and-racism\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T19:28:29","slug":"the-angry-black-woman-on-color-blindness-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"The Angry Black Woman On &quot;Color Blindness&quot; And Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/23\/things-you-need-to-understand-5-color-blindness\/\">ABW writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When white people say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see color\u201d<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should live in a colorblind society\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re actually saying is:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI refuse to deal with how our culture and society treats people of color because it makes me uncomfortable. I don\u2019t want to understand how having a different skin color or ethnicity affects other people because that means I would have to think and consider other points of view. What I want is to not have to think. I prefer to believe I live in a fantasy land where no one ever pays attention to skin color, ethnicity, culture, or religion. I am part of the problem with race relations, not its great savior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABW writes: When white people say: \u201cI don\u2019t see color\u201d or \u201cWe should live in a colorblind society\u201d What they\u2019re actually saying is: \u201cI refuse to deal with how our culture and society treats people of color because it makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}