[nabs-l] Blindness and Race

[Lillie Pennington]

I think racist blind people are probably associating blacks as a whole as inferiority. They want to feel above And in control and better than other people.

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> On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is a great story, Arielle.  Like you, I used to think that blind
> people are "less" racist than sighted people.  I don't necessarily
> think this is true.  I think that blind people may be less apt to
> understand why people are judged by their skin color.  I think the
> racism that blind people develop is more based on a cultural prejudice
> than one solely based on skin color.  For example, a lot of black
> people have a certain way of speaking.  That accent and speech pattern
> is due to their cultural and educational background, not to their skin
> color.  A blind person can often tell when a person is black and
> develop a prejudice, but again, that is a cultural prejudice, not one
> based on skin color.  I remember when I first learned about the races
> in the first grade, I could not for the life of me understand why
> people judged others based on their skin color.  I still have a hard
> time grasping that fact.  I think we, as a society, pay too much
> attention to what is on the outside and not enough attention to what
> is inside of a person--what makes you Arielle or me Ryan.  I think
> that, because we cannot see skin color, we are more apt to judge a
> person based on their personality which is, in a way, somewhat less
> judgemental than someone who simply looks at a person and judges them
> by their skin color.  That is not to say that we don't have our
> prejudices, but we are somewhat less judgemental because we can't see
> skin color or other physical traits.  Thanks for sharing your story;
> it makes for a great discussion.
> 
> Ryan
> 
>> On 1/22/14, Elif Emir <filerime at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I love reading your story. Thanks for sharing it.
>> Elif
>> 
>> 2014/1/22, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Since I'm blind and also a social psychologist, I think this is a
>>> fascinating topic. I am curious how other congenitally blind folks
>>> learned about race and in what context. The stories relayed in the
>>> article are tragic and show us just how far we still have to go as a
>>> society.
>>> I will never forget the day in second grade when we watched a movie in
>>> school about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. They