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ktsnake, I hear you and partially agree with you. However, I do not want to become colorblind. When I see someone the first thing I notice is their physical appearance. I want to acknowledge they are different. To me, someone saying "I don't see black or white, just a person" is like saying "I do not see a woman or man, just a person." It discounts an entire physical characteristic, and in my opinion, that is a disservice.
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What I meant was not to attribute things to and ASSume things based upon someone's race. For example, a typical racist action would be to ASSume that since you are black, you grew up in the ghetto as that is what I usually see on TV
. Just like if I was to ASSume that because you are a woman you can't hook up your DVD player to your TV
I actually do describe people by their skin color.. I do it all the time. There's not a damned thing wrong with it. I'm a white guy, olive skin-tone. Saying that a person is black, asian, white, etc.. is an essential ingrediant if you're describing how someone looks. I'm just saying that just BECAUSE I'm white, ASSuming that I'm a bad dancer, have a small #@%, etc... That's bad...
See what I'm saying?