'Beneath You'
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Be gentle with me, but would a reasonable possible subtext of "I don't see race when I look at you" be "You're not like the other black people"?
I'm not positing that it's the one and only way cheerful post-racialists are thinking, just that the latter doesn't contradict the former and just seems to fit some people...
It is possible.
It also sounds like a conversation in which it would be very easy to phrase things poorly.
Be gentle with me, but would a reasonable possible subtext of "I don't see race when I look at you" be "You're not like the other black people"?
Yea.
Oh yeah, totally.
It could also be an insecure and rather clueless person who is trying desperately to prove s/he isn't racist. People can be dumb.
Anyone can say something they don't mean. But it remains the most reasonable interpretation pf the word. Other interpretations would depend upon context, and assume the person did not mean what they said.
It also sounds like a conversation in which it would be very easy to phrase things poorly
They incident I'm thinking about wasn't so much a conversation as something that was offered up to me.
I was irritated by it the last time someone said that to me, but the possibly fucking obvious subtext didn't occur to me until fairly recently. Just that he was being one of those irritating post-racial it's-best-we-ignore-things kind of people.
Not caring what my race is is so different from not seeing it. Gulf.
Theo, I'm so sorry for your loss but it sounds like she had a good death and I am glad for that. I know, at least, that it is comforting for me to know that my mother died peacefully in her sleep and I hope that the same is true for you and your family.
They incident I'm thinking about wasn't so much a conversation as something that was offered up to me.
Well that just seems dumb.
Yeah, if you're volunteering that to a black person with no clear segue...it just seemed like the sort of thing I was best trying to ignore. I'm not going to fall out with someone over it, but it does start to stack up.