Colorblins In Race

In this excerpt, from the novel “Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity,” two views are stated on the concept of a “color-blind” society. The person in support of a society as such, was a black man, with a mixed-racial background. He viewed these racial categorizations present today, on the same continuum used during Jim Crow and slavery. Overall, he cringed at the thought of division due to race from other groups of people. I believe his take was a form of ignorance. A colorblind society to him, a black man, is to not label him by his race. A colorblind society to white people, specifically those that are racist, is to ignore the existence of race that they have fabricated, and racist acts that they have committed against minority groups. A
Many white people fail to realize that this nation was manufactured for them, on the labor and bodies of minorities. With the slave work of Africans, to the dangerous work in mines and on railroads by Asians, to the genocide of the Native Americans, this country was established for the benefit of white people, on the labor of those they hate the most. Still, white privilege is rampant and prevalent in so many areas of this country, from governmental to economical fields. Living in a colorblind society, where all the history of race relations in this country are magically disregarded, continues the perpetuation of white privilege, which in the end, only benefits white
Overall, race is a physical construct. If you look Black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern, and so on, that is what you are categorized as. How mixed your racial background is, is irrelevant, sadly. It does disregard the ancestral background of people, and their ethnicity and culture. Though, nothing is said that these people cannot take part and cherish where they come from, but overall, the world will only see one thing. It is much harder for people of mixed heritage that look like neither one definite race, nor the other. They must constantly fight the stigmas of the world to be included where they wish to be. In the end, for those of mixed heritage, a deeper understanding of self and identity must come from within. They cannot seek to be identified and categorized by a world that will not do them any