Interesting Video: Should we be colorblind?
The EDTF (Ethnic Diversity Task Force) recently met and are hoping in the months to come to be able to bring you stories and interesting resources that you can use to start conversations within your church, with your friends, with your leaders, whatever your situation may be, that could be helpful in moving us toward greater understanding of one another.
In that vein, here is an interesting video a member of our task force recently brought to the group's attention. It's short (3 minutes) and a great conversation starter. Check it out and feel free to pass it around!
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Great video.
The idea that we should be “colour blind” is simply another Eurocentric idea that black is something we should ignore because it’s not nice. Black people generally don’t go around saying that they don’t even notice that white people are white.
Ever since colonization, Europeans have traditionally been fed on a diet of Eurocentric literature. The childhood stories that were read to me were a classic example of Eurocentric influence. The princess was inevitably the ‘fairest of fair’ and the wicked witch was almost always ‘dark.’
Not much has changed since then, and I am fed a daily diet of negative stories about Africa on the news media. If one makes the effort to find positive success stories about Africa, they are available and plentiful - they’re just not in the main stream media. The main stream USA media in particular has a bias and a strongly stereotypical way of representing Blacks, Hispanics, and Arabs.
As a Black man I applaud this video. Today there is a subtle and oft well meaning assumption that true equality is based on sameness. Women are as valuable as men therefore we go unisex or eliminate sex specific language. Blacks are as good as whites so we pretend that color and culture is not relevant.
Did God make a mistake when he chose to make Irish different than Greeks, Germans different than French, Japanese different than Korean, and Blacks different than Whites? How about when he made Judah different than Levi with different assignments?
I don't think that I can improve on the Master's plan by ignoring the God given differences in men and women who are created in His image/