For centuries, Africans have been victims of racial discrimination in western countries. Color discrimination involves handling other people differently due to their skin complexion. It also occurs when a person is looked down upon because they have married someone from a particular race. Racism can happen in different situations, including harassment, work conditions, and illegal employment practices. However, psychologists have been trying to employ racial color blindness as a strategy to manage diversity and intergroup affairs (Apfelbaum et al. 207). This essay discusses the impact of the notion of color blindness in dealing with race discrimination.
Racial colorblindness implies that the best way to deal with individuals is to treat them equally without looking at a person’s culture, ethnicity, and race. In other words, this notion suggests that a color difference is not really so long as we pay no attention to it. However, in other places, such as in enduring structural racism, it serves as a device to discourage conversations of race generally (Apfelbaum et al. 207). Hence, this belief does not only concern skin complexion but also deals with racial disparity, societal violence, and inequality perpetuated within a racial community. Color blindness also allows us to reject uncomfortable cultural differences as well as individualizing conflicts and shortcomings.
In conclusion, in color racial blindness, individuals don’t see complexion but rather see people. In the fight to end racial disparity, the #AllLivesMatter was formed as an online phrase that could help reduce the conflict between the whites and blacks in the US. Anti-racism has been of huge advantage to the blacks who are dominated by whites in their countries, hence making life better for them.
Work Cited
Apfelbaum, Evan P., Michael I. Norton, and Samuel R. Sommers. “Racial Color Blindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications.” Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 21, no.3, 2012, pp. 205-209, Web.