Rejecting the Myth of Colorblindness in Education

Color blindness is a color perception flaw caused by the lack of specialized cells sensitive to various colors of the retina. This term is often a political discourse, often used by some liberal members whose race should be independent of any decision-making process. This is a type of moral gesture and people should treat individuals as individuals rather than as part of larger groups or cultures. This philosophy seems to make it possible to fill the gap between races.

Color blindness is a belief that we can not see color or race. These beliefs are widely accepted by wonderful benevolent people, including educators and school leaders. These are idealistic beliefs and there are many problems with this ideology. It is for several reasons. I think it is easier to acknowledge color vision than to acknowledge the difference that makes you feel strange. This makes it easier for people to deal with schools where there may be a lack of information and guidance on difficult conversations, especially on racial discrimination. Another reason is that I do not know at all ... you do not know what you do not know. Many people also repeat what they teach and will not reflect or question these beliefs. Finally, we do not recognize how harmful myths of color blindness are harmful.

From the 1960s to the 1970s, "Myths of minority ethnic groups in the model have always been one of the pillars of color blind racism." Real needs anti-Asia feelings. Nevertheless, this reaction missed the political imprint. The concept of a minority model means the existence of "minorities" - people who do not succeed because of lack of correct values, occupational ethics and wisdom. The lack of critical analysis is not necessarily the case. Due to the Vietnam War, the need for a grassroots community-based national research program, and the community's long-term poverty such as China Town in San Francisco, a strong and radical Asian-American movement took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s Appeared. Japan Town and Manila Town

Abstract suppression called color vision abnormality and placing it in neutral rhetoric is a process of social development in the 1970s. Color blindness is the way we are currently in contact with race, a way to avoid explicit participation in race concepts. This is an ideology based on the idea of ​​equality, but we do not release us from racial discrimination or eliminate that past. Racism in the United States has evolved into energy that can penetrate all bureaucrats and cultural structures, rather than the public intention that Jim Crow has in the United States. On the contrary, the majority of modern racial discrimination depends on a series of unrecognized unconscious set of destructive ideologies, customs, laws and social trends. This is a decisive asset of hegemony - it imagines absorbing real differences and includes the voice of a few people. When it makes us blind, it makes it even stronger