Living in a "Colorblind" Society is not the Answer
We live in a society where having difficult dialogues is something that people want to avoid at all cost. Not only is it uncomfortable for people, but people have different opinions on this topic called race. Race is something that goes deeper than just the color of your skin, or the box that you have to put a check next to so that the employer knows how to identify you. Race entails our history, and what people of color have had to endure in a society where brown skin is not seen as desirable. Due to these disparities, we then hear the term race change to terms like racism or systemic racism. In order to unpack all of these difficult terms that we hear everyday in media or in our homes, we need to first be able to have those difficult conversations on white privilege, and how generations of racism has gotten us to a place where we would much rather not talk about it, because that is just the easiest thing to go right? Wrong! Change can only happen when things are exposed, and exposur