Well, here we are again, dear readers. Matt's fallen two days behind in blogging, school's ratcheting up the gears in classes, and Facebook yet again drains millions of hours.
In short, I've been lazy.
But enough complaining-on to issues that stick out in my mind.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Or, How We're Not Quite Colorblind Yet)
In an Urban Government class yesterday, we were discussing the significance of MLK and his impact on the U.S. The more we talked about how much the world has changed for black people since the 50's, the more it became clear to me that the U.S. is far from colorblind.
We talked for nearly an hour about race disparity, how African-American is an outdated term for black people, how brown is slowly becoming the new white as far as skin color is concerned.
Only a few people brought up how they felt race didn't have to be as big of a concern as it used to be.
We still see color. We still feel the need to debate it, to look at it, to perpetuate this myth of difference between us. When current policy applies to certain people over certain other people, such as in affirmative action cases, we see racial differences take center stage. I know that color is easy to see, and therefore becomes a huge part of one's identity.
But does it have to be so central to so many things we do?
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