Isn't it interesting how some people claim to be colour-blind and not see race? Isn't it interesting how those people are white people?
"I don't believe in racial and ethnic labels," many Whites argue. "I'm an American.
- Changing Multiculturalism, p217
Something else white people love: claiming to be “colourblind”. Hint: doesn’t make you seem less racist. Makes you seem unobservant.
-Seen on StuffWhitePeopleLike.com
"I have never had to confront my race. I’m just me. White, purple, black, polka dotted. What’s the difference? Can’t we all just be colour blind?"
"It's strange to come to this country and see that all of the waiters are black. I think the white people here have an unconscious expectation to be served by black people."
- A foreign student speaking in race workshop I was at last week at UCT
I came to South Africa not realising I wasn't white. After have been seen as second-rate for such a long time, in spite of me resisting it, I feel like I'm going to leave this country a worse person that before I came.
- A Sri-Lankan UCT student, at the same race workshop. She is in her early 20's, and has never experienced Apartheid South Africa. What she has experienced is the Rainbow Nation.
"That's weird. Those street cleaners are white. Never seen that before."
- Me, to myself, when I first visited England (2000)
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