{"id":741349,"date":"2021-09-11T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=741349"},"modified":"2021-09-11T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:06:01","slug":"prager-colorblind-is-the-moral-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-colorblind-is-the-moral-ideal\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: Colorblind Is The Moral Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprager-colorblind-is-the-moral-ideal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=741349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/0189F8F0-8E8D-426A-B187-3081823EB3CF-scaled-e1631221470780.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is little that reveals the immorality and dishonesty of the Left more than its labeling the term \u201ccolorblind\u201d racist.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of countless examples:<\/p>\n<p>The University of California publishes a list of \u201cmicroaggressions\u201d \u2014 terms and ideas it considers racist \u2014 that white people should avoid using. The list includes the term \u201ccolorblindness\u201d as well as statements such as \u201cthere is only one race, the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s racist war on colorblindness is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology Today published an article by a psychology professor titled, \u201cColorblind Ideology Is a Form of Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HuffPost published a piece titled, \u201cHow Colorblindness Is Actually Racist,\u201d in which the author gives three examples of statements white people make that are racist:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am colorblind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see people, not color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Walt Disney Co. recommends that its white employees atone for their racism by \u201cchalleng(ing) colorblind ideologies and rhetoric\u201d such as \u2026 \u201cI don\u2019t see color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even the U.S. Army got into the act. It sent an email to all personnel saying that the word \u201ccolorblind\u201d is \u201cevidence of white supremacy.\u201d (The Army later withdrew the email after a congressman threatened a federal investigation.)<\/p>\n<p>I could give dozens of other examples of the Left\u2019s Orwellian labelling of \u201ccolorblind\u201d as \u201cracist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why Orwellian?<\/p>\n<p>Because becoming colorblind is precisely what people opposed to racism should aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>That is why Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s most famous quote, from his most famous speech, is: \u201cI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s position is that Martin Luther King Jr. was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the Left that\u2019s wrong. The colorblind person is the very definition of a non-racist person.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one obvious proof: The worst racists \u2014 defenders of slavery, supporters of Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan, just to cite American examples \u2014 were the least colorblind people. Color is the one thing they and all racists see in people. Precisely because they defined people by their color, they justified their subjugation of black people.<\/p>\n<p>Colorblind means one does not believe a person\u2019s color is in any way significant.<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t that the ideal? Shouldn\u2019t we define a person by their heart, mind, personality and, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, above all, character? When people, of any color, look into a mirror, do they see color? No, they don\u2019t. They see a human being. When a white person looks into a mirror, does he or she think, \u201cLook, a white person!\u201d? When a black person looks into a mirror, does he or she think, \u201cLook, a black person!\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not. When we look at ourselves, we see John, or Jessica, or Tameka, or Jose. We see ourselves \u2014 not color. Why isn\u2019t that how we would want everyone else to see us?<\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s insistence that color is important is one of the most racist and anti-human doctrines of our time. It was precisely when America was most racist that people\u2019s color was deemed most important. Why would we want to return to that time?<\/p>\n<p>Why is your skin color any more important than your hair color or, for that matter, the color of your shoes?<\/p>\n<p>Name one important thing your color tells others about you. You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Does your color tell us if you\u2019re kind, or smart, or what foods or music you like, or what you do for a living? Does it tell us anything about the most important thing about you \u2014 your values?<\/p>\n<p>No. Your color tells us nothing about you.<\/p>\n<p>So, why should anyone not be colorblind? To be colorblind means one ignores the least important thing about you. Isn\u2019t that a good thing? And isn\u2019t the opposite position \u2014 that your race is important \u2014 racist?<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who regard the Bible as the greatest book ever written, as the greatest repository of wisdom, must be colorblind. The only thing the Bible tells us about the first human being, Adam, from whom we are all descended, is that he was created in God\u2019s image. If the Bible placed any significance on race, wouldn\u2019t it have told us Adam\u2019s color?<\/p>\n<p>That there were Christians who defended slavery on race grounds only proves that there were Christians who didn\u2019t take the Bible seriously. Conversely, some Christians who did take the Bible seriously organized the first large-scale effort in world history to abolish slavery.<\/p>\n<p>One final thought: Imagine that tomorrow every human being became blind. Would the world be more \u2014 or less \u2014 racist?<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, \u201cNo Safe Spaces,\u201d was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is little that reveals the immorality and dishonesty of the Left more than its labeling the term \u201ccolorblind\u201d racist.Here are just a few of countless examples:The University of California &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891921,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}