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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dear “Colorblind” people, [View all]
Sciences says youre probably racist:
http://news.illinois.edu/news/10/0421online.html
If you subscribe to a color-blind racial ideology, you dont think that race or racism exists, or that it should exist, Tynes said. You are more likely to think that people who talk about race and racism are the ones who perpetuate it. You think that racial problems are just isolated incidents and that people need to get over it and move on. Youre also not very likely to support affirmative action, and probably have a lower multi-cultural competence.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/cou/47/1/59/
The purpose of this investigation was to develop a conceptually grounded scale to assess cognitive aspects of color-blind racial attitudes. Five studies on the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) with over 1,100 observations provide initial reliability and validity data. Specifically, results from an exploratory factor analysis suggest a 3-factor solution: Unawareness of Racial Privilege, Institutional Discrimination, and Blatant Racial Issues. A confirmatory factor analysis suggests that the 3-factor model is a good fit of the data and is the best of the competing models. The CoBRAS was positively related to other indexes of racial attitudes as well as 2 measures of belief in a just world, indicating that greater endorsement of color-blind racial attitudes was related to greater levels of racial prejudice and a belief that society is just and fair. Self-reported CoBRAS attitudes were sensitive to diversity training.
If you really dont want dont want to be racist, you should actively discuss race and racial privilege. It is especially important that you discuss race if youre a parent or work with kids, because it will help children to be more aware of social issues.
http://ladyatheist.tumblr.com/post/23400847161/dear-colorblind-people
http://news.illinois.edu/news/10/0421online.html
If you subscribe to a color-blind racial ideology, you dont think that race or racism exists, or that it should exist, Tynes said. You are more likely to think that people who talk about race and racism are the ones who perpetuate it. You think that racial problems are just isolated incidents and that people need to get over it and move on. Youre also not very likely to support affirmative action, and probably have a lower multi-cultural competence.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/cou/47/1/59/
The purpose of this investigation was to develop a conceptually grounded scale to assess cognitive aspects of color-blind racial attitudes. Five studies on the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) with over 1,100 observations provide initial reliability and validity data. Specifically, results from an exploratory factor analysis suggest a 3-factor solution: Unawareness of Racial Privilege, Institutional Discrimination, and Blatant Racial Issues. A confirmatory factor analysis suggests that the 3-factor model is a good fit of the data and is the best of the competing models. The CoBRAS was positively related to other indexes of racial attitudes as well as 2 measures of belief in a just world, indicating that greater endorsement of color-blind racial attitudes was related to greater levels of racial prejudice and a belief that society is just and fair. Self-reported CoBRAS attitudes were sensitive to diversity training.
If you really dont want dont want to be racist, you should actively discuss race and racial privilege. It is especially important that you discuss race if youre a parent or work with kids, because it will help children to be more aware of social issues.
http://ladyatheist.tumblr.com/post/23400847161/dear-colorblind-people
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The key to respecting each other's cultures and colors is to recognize them...
MrScorpio
May 2012
#3
so, if i am understanding this completely, colorblind people only see the color brown
Suji to Seoul
May 2012
#11
In my experience people who say they don't see race are deluding themselves.
limpyhobbler
May 2012
#19
I think studies that do this sort of blanket crap are more harmful to racial issues than they are h
YellowRubberDuckie
May 2012
#24