[juvinious]

This form of cultural eugenics serves no ideal purpose to western society. What are the merits of basing everyone by the hue of their pigmentation? This is exactly the same position that individuals advocating bill C-16 in Canada so that people are forced to acknowledge others transient or sexual state. Again, these ideas only serve to segrate groups and will likely lead to create civil strife.

[Blackthorn]

> This form of cultural eugenics

Wow, that escalated quickly.

> What are the merits of basing everyone by the hue of their pigmentation?

This is a strawman; it's not what I'm advocating. What I am advocating is to recognize that black people have a different lived experience than white people. Colorblindness erases that.

> Again, these ideas only serve to segrate groups and will likely lead to create civil strife.

Like racism isn't causing civil strife right now?

[meri_dian]

Everyone has a different lived experience than everyone else. If certain people are experiencing life in a negative way because of superficial characteristics, then we should advocate for a world where those superficial characteristics don't get in the way of our judgement of them: a colorblind world. You think that adopting a colorblind perspective ignores racism, but it is actually a solution to the problem of racism.

There are many problems in many communities (poor rural white, inner city black, etc.) that are caused by the actions of those in the communities themselves, rather than by oppressive outside forces. Attitude and behavioral change within those communities is necessary for any lasting improvement in the lived experience of it's members.