I'm not color blind. I enjoy the variety of races and colors in the human race. I like people being different and think it would be boring if we were all the same.
One has to be blind not to notice color and physical differences in another. Background: I also grew up in a state that is (now) 95%-97% white. However; I have always tried to be respectful of everyone I meet, regardless of our physical differences. Now! I might not be as open to a overbearing loud mouth elitist Liberal! ;)
Regards,
fight_truth_decay
I was taught as a child, and I still believe that you do not judge a person's character based upon the color of their skin, and I never have. A person is a person to me. Disabled, different colored skin, different religions, different cultures. None of it makes a difference to me.
It is who I am. I don't feel bad about it either.
BTW, I grew up in an area that is 100% pink skinned people.
I am not blind, I am color blind. I wouldn't change that for a moment.
I remember the first time I noticed a person who had darker skin than me... I was a child of 5 and I saw a lady in an elevator who had brown skin. I asked her if she ate a bunch of chocolate to make her skin so dark.( sure now that is embarrassing, but I was a kid)
She said no she was a black woman, and I said oh. Then she said something to my Mom I will never forget , she said "thank you". "Thank you for not teaching this child to be afraid of me, or that I am a color, or that I am bad because my skin is different than hers". I will never forget that. IT is who I am.
That was a lady, a woman with friends and a family, and a heart and a life story.
She was not a color, and I do not think she ever should be.