Color

[supergee]

“Why do you say, ‘I don’t see color,’ as if it were a good thing?”
Because, as Dr. King said, it would be a good thing if the whole country did it. But the Power Structure sees color, and so do millions of stupid white people who get one vote each, so we have to. It’s one of those things we can’t escape, like government and bondage to our bowels.

ETA: Thank to several helpful comments, I realize this should have been something like “I wish I lived in a world where I didn’t have to see color, where we didn’t have that particular element of collectivist politics that makes many people suffer and gives the rest of us another civic duty.”

Comments

[arlie]

I'm still not American in my instincts and responses. The primary meaning of "color" for me is the same as the meaning of "colour", and it's not a synonymn for race. (I'm aware it's used that was as a secondary meaning, but the only hint - to me - that you were using the secondary meaning was your mentions of "Dr. King", and "white people". I didn't read it as "race" until I reread the post... the first sentence had me expecting something about the advantages of colour blindness - the biological/medical condition, not the social/psychological one.