Does Lasik Surgery Fix Colorblindness? Probably Not.

          When you look at a person, do you see their skin color? Tons upon tons of white people will probably say no, they don't. Good news is, they're lying. Of course people see skin color. No one is color blind, save for people that seriously can't see colors, and even then I'm sure some people are a darker shade of grey than others. The point is that people see skin color, regardless of what they say. When the topic of color-blind racism gets brought up, most people have no clue what that would mean. I know I didn't until we got into the work of Bonilla-Silva.
           When people use phrases like, "Of course I have black friends, I hang out with them all the time!", they're more than likely trying to make themselves look like they aren't a racist because they actually don't have any black friends. Turns out, more white people than I ever realized say things like that. Bonilla-Silva did the interviews to find out that only a fraction of people that say that really do. As a whole, most white people are pretty segregated. Now sure, most people thing segregation ended ages ago. Really, it hasn't. We do it to ourselves, and some people justify it with a framework of colorblind racism. Saying that people of each race are just drawn to each other is a major way to sound like a racist.
            I had no idea how many of the things that people said in this book, Racism Without Racists, that I have actually heard around my hometown growing up and thought nothing of until I grew up and realized just how backwards it is to say things like, "I didn't get that job because of affirmative action giving it to a black man!", or "Its their own fault they don't work hard!". Really, its insane how many people think that way and truly believe its the race that makes people the way they are in the world, and not the economics and politics behind decreased pay for people that aren't white men. So many people are unaware that what they are saying really does show how much of a racist they are at heart.
 Now, I grew up in a town of 2000 people, corn fields, trucks, hunting, and the occasional festival filled with carnival folk that were just as backwards as we were. In my town, we had one black family. They lived in an apartment building because the mother had taken her kids to a new town after their father died. Of course, people made the assumption that the dad just up and left after having kids. My town is incredibly insensitive and would rather make assumptions about a hardworking widow than actually take the time to talk to her. They would use the phrases Bonilla-Silva has in his book that people use to be racist without saying "I think anyone that isn't white is inferior to me!". Bonilla-Silva's book really hit home for me, because it made me realize how segregated we really are as a country, and how far we really have to go.

http://sundial.csun.edu/2013/02/colorblind-ideology-a-new-form-of-racism/