Nyota, I enjoyed this site and learned some history facts of which I was unaware. I went to 3-4 linked sites and related to each. But I am sort of queer when it came to another site titled something like "Why Whites Can't Get over Color [and I may not have that right]. I am really keen upon this subject. In my young adulthood I liked to say that I was colorblind and behaved as if it were true. I was lucky enough as I advanced in life to have numerous options/choices in my professional life that included the option of working as a white in a privately black owned and primarily black hospital, manage a home health care department in a primarily black inner city neighborhood and live and renovate a home in a mixed inner city neighborhood in the late 70s.
From these experiences I gleaned that i indeed did not wish to be color blind but that instead i would see color for what it was. What I found in black neighborhoods or places of work was something distinctly un-white, or something that I had as of yet not encountered in white neighborhoods. And that was a warmth and inclusiveness ... even a love and welcome in embracing me that I have never encountered in any white neighborhood. I found a richness of character and depth of love for mankind unlike I had experienced anywhere. And frankly I found it distinctly black.
Over the years I have come to understand that we as Americans need to embrace each other and that one without the other will never be whole. Whites with out embracing black culture will never be whole and vice-versa. I truly believe it and that is why I am not color blind.
Thank you Nyota...we gain so much though the loving of another/others ... we claim our wholeness in the world. Pop-ups it was all in the timing for me...I sort of skittered ahead of them...:))
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From these experiences I gleaned that i indeed did not wish to be color blind but that instead i would see color for what it was. What I found in black neighborhoods or places of work was something distinctly un-white, or something that I had as of yet not encountered in white neighborhoods. And that was a warmth and inclusiveness ... even a love and welcome in embracing me that I have never encountered in any white neighborhood. I found a richness of character and depth of love for mankind unlike I had experienced anywhere. And frankly I found it distinctly black.
Over the years I have come to understand that we as Americans need to embrace each other and that one without the other will never be whole. Whites with out embracing black culture will never be whole and vice-versa. I truly believe it and that is why I am not color blind.