Color Blind

So-called "color-blind" policies have come under fire for ignoring the structural inequalities that help determine relative rates of success. ❋ Mira Sucharov (2011)

"It won't be exactly color-blind but much more color-blind." ❋ Unknown (2010)

In our day, when knowledge of the past is spotty, the film may well teach audiences while moving them to tears with its inspirational tale of color-blind sisterhood and courage in the face of bigotry. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

You guys do it with your faux color-blind ideology which is really an attempt to silence those fighting against institutional racism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Justice Harlan, a Republican appointee, ringingly proclaimed that the Constitution must be "color-blind." ❋ Ken Blackwell (2012)

The CRA merely forced banks to stop discriminating solely on race and make their mortgage application qualifications color-blind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Until it becomes politically correct to view the world through color-blind eyes, there will always be shock jocks, newscasters, miniature race relations despots claiming to represent an entire people, and others taking advantage of racial differences for their own purposes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The disparate-impact approach encourages race-based decision-making, which is flatly at odds with the color-blind ideals of the civil-rights movement and the laws for which it fought. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Whether slightly color-blind, like this black and white cat, or completely non-voyant, Louis Braille believed that the gift of literacy belonged to everyone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a result, it misses the larger ethos of art: Understanding and empathy should be color-blind. ❋ Fern Siegel (2011)

See, what color-blind ideology has done is reduce and trivialize the cry for justice and fighting back against institutional racism into a cry for help and a handout, thus reducing a people who are not afraid of standing up to them to infants as if they needed their help of their allies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That image just * screams* “colored by stereotypically color-blind B&W artist”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Seeking a perfect opportunity to twist those words around into a faux color-blind ideology, they have used them to constantly suggest that those who raise a cry against injustice and institutional racism reject the legacy of MLK. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anthony Ryan is color-blind, and is a survivor of testicular cancer. ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

You most likely talk about “color-blind ideology” but you ignore how institutional racism encourages this rhetoric because it provides the illusion that we are past racism and that everyone has equal opportunity whether it comes to employment, voting, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He [thinks] they are [racist], even though [they say] they are color-blind. ❋ Light Joker (2005)

Todd is [color blind]. Allison(With a [white shirt]) : Todd what color is my shirt?! Todd(Thinking it must be white) : White. Allison: You're not color blind! [Faker]! ❋ Colorblind_Colorguardie (2009)

[Jack] [failed] the [Ishihara test] because he has Color Blindness. ❋ Mr. Hasnoface (2011)

"Why do you like that shirt so much?" "[You don't understand]... I'm [Color Blind]" "How is it that you colored the sun green, the ocean purple, but managed to get the [rainbow] perfect?" "I'm [color blind]" ❋ Diabetic Color-Blind (2009)

The senator from Detroit try to end its [mass poverty] Problem by [hiring] one [secretary] but it was like Watching Black And White Movies While You're Color-Blind so his actions was little to no effectiveness towards the problem ❋ EmJayee (2018)

I've never heard someone say they wish they were [colorblind], but I've heard a ton of people say they wish they lacked certain feelings, because they think it would solve all their problems. This is kind of like thinking you could avoid getting stuck in traffic if you no longer saw the red in a red light. Emotion is not the heart of the problem. [Emotional color blindness] might very well take away things like: codependence, trauma responses and making personal sacrifices for conscientious decisions...but it would also diminish your capacity for joy and your ability to have meaningful relationships with anybody. Better to sort out [the kinks], then throw the whole baby out with the bathwater. ❋ Olive989 (2023)