Color Blinding

ISABELLE WILKERSON, African-American reporter for the new York Times, had arranged to interview a gentleman for a research project, and she was excited about doing the important interview. She arrived at the restaurant early, sat down, and waited. The gentleman arrived late, but when he did, she introduced herself, and invited him to join her at her table. He said he was there to do an important interview, gave her a weird look, and asked to see some identification, like a Times business card. she responded that she didn't have any on her, but assured him that she was the reporter, because she had shown up at the right time and place. He told her there must be some mistake, and that he didn't have time to stay. he left....African-American agricultural scientist George Washington Carver was working for the state agricultural extension agency. A lady called the agency, and reported that she was having a problem with her peach trees; they were infested with a peculiar kind of ubg, and were looking sick  Carver's supervisor said he would send out a scientist to try to help her. when Carver got to h er house and knocked, dressed in overalls, work clothes, she answered the door and said, "If you're looking for work, the front lawn needs mowing. The lawn mower is in the tool shed." Carver shrugged his shoulders, went to the shed, got out the lawn mower, and cut her grass. Then, he went back and knocked on her door again, When she answered, she handed him a dollar, and he said: "I'm a scientist from the agricultural extension service. Could I perhaps take a look at your peach trees now?" True stories, both. they raise the question, how would the scenarios have been different had Wilkerson and Carver both been European-american, white, rather than African-American, black? We were once told that the solution is to be "color blind". But being blind to anything is nothing other than ignorance, will ignorance, and since people can see each other plainly, color blindness is nothing but a pretense, a form of dishonesty. so now in our modern age of enlightenment, we have abandoned color blindness in favor of...what...black lives matter? The problem here is the cliche "all lives matter". In Africa, and most civilized countries, nobody is black, and nobody is white. People are categorized by a broad range of ethnic traits, such as language, and so forth. the black and white bi polar paradigm is uniquely American. Only in America, as they say. Put your forearm next to that of any other human being, and it becomes obvious; nobody is "black", nobody is "white", and we all have different skin colors, if only slightly. Maybe we Americans are simply too busy being racists to notice.