Gen-Y and the Colorblind Lie

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

This is an excellent article on the issue of race.

Gen-Y and the Colorblind Lie TheRoot.com



I can hope (and I think we are successful) that for your generation that the goal of the colorblind society is accomplished. I have seen that James acts colorblind (in this area, fortunately he is not physically color blind like his dad). He never makes comments about playing with the black kid or Hispanic kid etc. They are all just kids to him. Of course the fact that Manual is mixed black and Hispanic helps things out, because it's hard to let preconceived bigotry rise to the surface when you have to deal with someone of color as part of the family every day.

And one of the interesting things I noticed at the Rogers family reunion this year is that since 2 of my cousins married Asian American people and my brother has an adopted child of some central Asian background there were an awful lot of little black haired dark skinned kids running around and no one noticed or seemed to care. Which is an example of how things have changed and are changing in the world and our culture, for the better I might add.

I do wonder what the world will be like if and when we reach a point where the government can completely relax all affirmative action barriers. When government can truly be color blind, and not have to enforce that on private businesses. It would be nice. Although to be realistic most of what happens today is really about class and economics, with race as a masking factor. I hope that you children will get to live in that world.