White blindness: the original sin

When white people play the “I don’t see race” card they are either A) lying (to others and/or themselves) or B) being racist (as it follows that “not seeing race” literally means not seeing BIPOC as individual human beings with non-white lived experiences). The latter is a truism I’ve only recently been forced to uncomfortably confront even as protests against police brutality continue across the US by Americans of every color. (Though you wouldn’t necessarily know this by consuming the corporate news lately – as the liberal media prefers to hype the white-savior narrative provided by white suburban moms, the right-wing propaganda machine images of white “antifa” agitators, thereby erasing Black folks from their own story yet again. That is, when reporters aren’t focused on the overzealous federal forces, seemingly dispatched for the sole purpose of starring in the next “law and order” Trump campaign ad.)

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