This, coupled with a "privilege" talk I attended at Infinitus, is well-written and thought-provoking. People are obviously trying to indicate they are not passing (negative) judgments based on skin color, as I also do my best with. The one time I really could say that I was "race-blind" was when I was a kid (including my teen years) growing up in California. I considered myself Asian because my father is Dutch-Indonesian, not realizing that I look white and my background and experiences are white. I was SO used to there being piles of kids who were also Asian, of all sorts, as well as Hispanics, that I really did not see their names as being "different" or that they were different at all. Nam Ngo? Neet Majmudar? Jay Hernandez? Peers. Now, I will say that was in complete lacking of awareness of their cultural heritages that did make them special; it wasn't until I got to college, where those heritages were emphasized, and special racially-based student unions, that I was kind of pinged into it. And ... I have to admit that
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A few years back I used to profess to be among this group, and then I realized that when I said I don't see race, what I really meant was that when I saw someone whose race I couldn't readily pinpoint I just assumed they identified as white, and huh, I thought, something's off about that.
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A few years back I used to profess to be among this group, and then I realized that when I said I don't see race, what I really meant was that when I saw someone whose race I couldn't readily pinpoint I just assumed they identified as white, and huh, I thought, something's off about that.
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