ARTICLE. Column: Teaching kids to be color blind is no help Racial color-blindness sounds pretty good in theory. After all, aren't we supposed to be judging people based only on the contents of their character, rather than the color of their skin?
But critics of the idea say it has some serious downsides. They argue that since race is a major contributing factor in all sorts of societal outcomes, from who goes to jail to what educational opportunities a child has, to adopt color-blindness as an ideology is to ignore important discrepancies, thereby allowing them to fester. If you can't really even talk about racism, in other words, how are you supposed to address it?
An interesting new study in Social Psychology and Personality Science sheds some light on how color-blindness may affect minority kids. The authors, Kristin Pauker of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Evan P. Apfelbaum of MIT, and Brian Spitzer of NYU, start by explaining that there's good reason to think minority kids don't benefit from a color-blind approach: A body of research has shown that "race is central to their identities, a source of psychological well-being, and a lens through which others perceive them."
Ignoring race, then, may well have a negative impact on those for whom it's most salient. And yet these kids, like most American kids, are steeped in a milieu of color-blindness — many are taught at a young age that it's wrong to point out or focus on racial differences. Pauker and her colleagues wanted to learn more about this, so they recruited a group of 111 9-to-12- year-olds from "urban public elementary schools that serve low-income and middle-class families near San Francisco."
The kids were asked to play a game that's basically "Guess Who?" Photos of 40 individuals were laid out in front of them, one of them the "correct" answer, and the children were tasked with picking the right one by asking as few questions as possible.
Pauker and her colleagues set things up so that asking whether the person was black or white or whether they were male or female could instantly eliminate half the photos. The researchers tracked the participants' performance, videotaped the games as they progressed and, after the game was over, asked and recorded the kids' responses to two important questions: " (W)hether they noticed that white and black people were displayed in the photos ... (and) why they did or did not use race as a question."
This study was something of a sequel to a similar one Apfelbaum and Pauker, along with other researchers, published in Developmental Psychology back in 2008. The authors found that the younger children in that sample, drawn entirely from middle- and upper-middle-class white kids in suburban Boston, actually outperformed their older peers at the question-guessing task, simply because the older (and therefore more tactful) ones were afraid to ask about race............
NN comments: They do it on many a subject -- bludgeon the white population with some hellish concept for 40 or 50 years, then decide weaponizing its opposite (often a healthy norm they destroyed) instead would be way cool.
I've gone after radiovangelists through the years about their part in destroying whiteness. Message just sent to one of the worst offenders:
http://www.drjamesdobson.org/about/contact/contact-us
Greetings, Dr. Dobson. I used to listen to your program in the late 1980s but stopped because of your constant pushing of race mixing and neoconservative politicians.
Please read this: http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/column-teaching- kids-to-be-color-blind-is-no-help/2247008
Notably, you did not exercise the "colorblindness" you preach (or used to preach) in choosing your mate. Neither did Mrs. Dobson. Have your children done so? If so it only proves that your part in the diversity brainwashing campaign had its inevitable effect.
If you are no longer pushing these aspects of the liberal agenda, I salute you and hope your new organization is doing well. Otherwise, please consider what the article has to say. It is merely one of many documenting that the "diversity" agenda is a disaster for all concerned.
Thank you for hearing me out.
I was going to write him the following at Focus on the Family (NEVER liked that smarmy name) till I realized that for some weird, seemingly hidden reason, the good doctor has left his famous organization:
Greetings. I applaud the vast amount of actually good work you folks have done through the years. I used to be a regular Focus listener in the 'late 1980s, but had to give it up because of Jim's political correctness, especially the constant pushing of race mixing and showcasing of neoconservative political actors.
Are you shocked? Don't be -- it's a rare large conservative organization that isn't damaging our way of life in some notable form.
Jim used to constantly push the supposed need to raise "colorblind kids" including (IIRC) a Focus magazine cover story on it. This is sick for several reasons, e.g.:
1) God gave us rods and cones for a reason. 2) He made us different races because he clearly wanted us that way. 3) Teaching children trash their basic instincts -- e.g. to associate with those of similar background to their own -- is a perfect way to ruin their young minds as well as the social fabric of predominantly white societies. The results are disastrous, too -- interracial marriage results and it is grossly fraught with needless troubles that don't exist for those not thus immolating themselves -- including all the evangelical personalities pushing this evil dogma.
I want you to think about that last part. Were the Jim Dodsons, Jack Hayfords et al colorblind in choosing whom to marry, where to live, who to play sports (e.g. basketball) with? What race(s) of people have Ryan and Danae Dobson chosen to marry?
So much for that. Skimming the current Focus website I don't see any pushing of misceg, thank God......... Now how did I know the article at hand would reek of gefiltefish before even clicking to read it? By a macabre twist, its protagonists' surnames are shared by two of the most ghastly criminals in red history: the insane hag who originally forced communism on Romania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Pauker
and an infamous, sanguinary member of the first Soviet Politburo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zinoviev
Pushing fake, counterintuitive "colorblindness" on children is the demographic New Math, with corresponding nightmare results.
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