Earlier this month, “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah welcomed the Donald Trump surrogate and right-wing, conservative commentator Tomi Lahren to his show for an impassioned back-and-forth debate on Colin Kaepernick, the Black Lives Matter movement and a host of other issues.
During the interview, she took exception to those who levied criticism against her: “Because I criticize a black person … does not mean that I don’t like black people or that I’m a racist,” she said. “To me, true diversity is diversity of thought, not diversity of color. I don’t see color.”
“You don’t see color?” Noah responded. “So what do you do at a traffic light.”
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This is is a must read blog. Colorblindness is well-meaning but that well-meaningless is toxic. It ignores the social problems that minorities face and suggests that we are in a post-racial society. It also suggests that ?not talking about race” would end the problem as if not “talking about hunger” would end hunger.
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I agree 100%. I’ve got another article coming out soon that explore the theological implications more deeply.
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Look forward to reading it. I wrote a blog about Christian Colorblindness https://jholmes90blog.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/the-colorblind-christian-the-toxicity-of-the-churchs-silence-on-racism/
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I am working on a similar article from the Spiral Dynamics framework.
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Can’t wait to read it. Be sure to tag me.
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Its amazing how you can mention race being a social construct created 400-500 years ago and neglect to mention it was created by europeans to justify slavery(which just so happens to line up with your chronology of “race”)… And its also amazing how you sum up the oppresion of African and and indigenous ppl as the suppression of diversity…yikes
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