Colour Blindness Quotes

“Colour blindness is often used to silence people of colour attempting to articulate the racism we face. When people of colour point this out, they're accused of being racist against white people, and the accountability avoidance continues. Colour blindness does not accept the legitimacy of structural racism or a history of white racial dominance.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Casting actors in movies on talent alone regardless of skin colour may be motivated by the best of intentions but this practice has two main drawbacks. The first is that it compromises stories that are explicitly about race. If skin colour is presented as an unproblematic ‘norm’ then there can never be a convincing point of tension over this issue. Secondly, this kind of casting renders a story inaccurate from a socio-historical perspective. It undermines any ‘truth’ a film wants to convey because racism is effectively erased from the historical record.”
― Martin Raybould