US police brutality item

[Duty]

Mr. Freeman’s comments notwithstanding, I think it’s perfectly acceptable to identify race in a story about racism. It’s immaterial at this point whether the racism is real or perceived.

It would be lovely if everyone could be colourblind in the interest of racial harmony, but we’re not there yet. And we won’t be as long as white cops keep murdering black people with impunity.

Boru

I actually don't see the merits in being 100% colorblind. Are people so irredeemable as to require blinders in order not to hate? It's okay to notice someone looks different from you. It's just not okay to treat them differently or expect them to have different rights because of it. I love admiring the diversity in our appearance. It would be a shame if we had to pretend not to notice because racists can't handle having more than one type of sneech on the beach.

I try to view "race" as being on a par with male pattern baldness, needing spectacles, being tall/short etc - a physical manifestation of genetics which should incur no advantage or disadvantage and is not worth mentioning in fact, as the individual a) is not responsible for the feature and b) there is no logical reason that feature should be judged important, overwhelmingly. 

Note that all of the features I cited at the start of this post have/do at some time attract negative stigma and fallout, sadly, due to cultural fuckups and ignorance, like with racism. Perseverance is needed and other platitudes...there is hope, yes indeed.