BLIND MAN DESCRIBES RACIST STEREOTYPES BASED ON HOW PEOPLE TALK

Blind individuals were interviewed about the topic of racism and their experiences with it. This was the response from one of the interviewees.

Although blind people were not the pioneers of racism, like everyone else, they are recipients of the racist conditioning that goes on in this nation. So, you don’t need to see someone’s appearance to plug into the racist structures and forces in this nation and in this world. This man’s account highlights that, as he admits that he does plug right into the racial conditioning to make negative associations with Black people. But more important than any assumptions about who someone might be based on how they talk, he’s received a lifetime of conditioning around how to feel about us, the wrongs done to us, and what is required to make things right. (According to them, nothing is required and we should just be happy with them and the evil things done to us by them throughout our shared history.)

So can blind people be racist? The answer is a definite yes.