Stephanie Pruitt
Nashville, TN
Claiming social color blindness is not a thing to be proud of. It means that you are trying to remain unaware of a real and true element of a person. The meanings we assess to skin color will vary and that is where dynamics surrounding race have the potential to become problematic. Seeing and identifying are neutral acts. Assuming and judging are not neutral. And of course, we know that skin color and race are not necessarily related. (sidenote: I’m not sure that we fully understand the concept of race and how it operates. Ethnicity, country of origin, and skin color seem to be quite direct, but race usually has more complicated social stuff attached to it.)
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