Persuasive Essay On Color Blindness

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Claim: Improving the racial climate in our educational system needs to be a top priority. These students must be prepared for the real world upon graduation and that includes interacting and working with many diverse groups. It is our responsibility to insure that our students become the best possible people they can be, and this includes teaching them diversity and cultural acceptance. However, we need to make sure that we are going about this in the right ways and not causing more issues along the way. Color-blindness is not the solution to racism, and this is proven throughout the chapter and the journals of the students in the study outlined. Evidence: There are four major reasons why color-blindness is not effective in stopping racism or teaching students to accept and appreciate …show more content…

However, color-blindness is not the answer and may even be detrimental to the desired result. People need to be aware of how racial interactions affect all races, and be wiling to participate in open and honest discussions. This hiding of feelings and over compensating with color-blindness is not helping anyone to move past racist thoughts and behaviors. This idea that backstage racism should be accepted is absurd, and causes irreparable damages. “The “fun” for young Whites in a private backstage has real and serious consequences that ratify and perpetuate old racist stereotypes, contributing to and maintain contemporary racial hierarchies (as evident in higher education, health care, the legal system, housing, etc.) that Whites have the privilege to ignore” (Pg. 206). These backstage behaviors make it apparent that racism is not dying out “with Gram-pa,” as one student alluded to in their journal. Racism is still very prevalent, but Whites now participate in racist conversations behind closed

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