Comments on: Color Blind? http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/10/01/color-blind/ Guiding Transformative Change Through Insight, Inspiration, and Empowerment Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:36:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Deb http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/10/01/color-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-658 Deb Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:20:36 +0000 http://guidingchange.org/blog/?p=14#comment-658 Hey Lee, Great to hear from you. Tell us what you really think about Giuliani. :). Thanks for commenting. Deb Hey Lee,

Great to hear from you. Tell us what you really think about Giuliani. :) .

Thanks for commenting.

Deb

]]> By: Lee Blair http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/10/01/color-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-657 Lee Blair Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:53:39 +0000 http://guidingchange.org/blog/?p=14#comment-657 Hi Deb! I am extremely happy to see you have a venue for your opinion. You may not know this, but we think similarly. In this essay though, you appear to let Giuliani off the hook, claiming he was oblivious to the impact of his joke. Not only did he know what he was saying, he chose to say it to Blacks specifically because Black folks are the primary group who don't get cabs in a timely fashion and claim it is a result of racial prejudice/profiling. Yes, I am saying he said this in a mean spirited way, mainly because he could. It is especially galling, as he was at the podium in a room filled with people of color, i.e. he knew what he was doing, he was not oblivious to the moment. I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, there is no doubt of Giuliani's feelings. He has a record of insensitivity and outright animus towards people of color. Sometimes colorblindness works in other, less obvious ways. In this case, it is in not seeing that Giuliani is an evil, spiteful man, who could hold a grudge against a racial group in a heartbeat. That is a colorblindness that I've observed for many years, in many cases. Usually these examples are tossed to the side with comments about over-sensitivity. Right..... Hi Deb!

I am extremely happy to see you have a venue for your opinion. You may not know this, but we think similarly. In this essay though, you appear to let Giuliani off the hook, claiming he was oblivious to the impact of his joke. Not only did he know what he was saying, he chose to say it to Blacks specifically because Black folks are the primary group who don’t get cabs in a timely fashion and claim it is a result of racial prejudice/profiling. Yes, I am saying he said this in a mean spirited way, mainly because he could. It is especially galling, as he was at the podium in a room filled with people of color, i.e. he knew what he was doing, he was not oblivious to the moment.

I’m all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, there is no doubt of Giuliani’s feelings. He has a record of insensitivity and outright animus towards people of color. Sometimes colorblindness works in other, less obvious ways. In this case, it is in not seeing that Giuliani is an evil, spiteful man, who could hold a grudge against a racial group in a heartbeat. That is a colorblindness that I’ve observed for many years, in many cases. Usually these examples are tossed to the side with comments about over-sensitivity. Right…..

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