No such thing as color blind

Cynthia tucker, a columnist on ajc.com discusses the issue of color-blind voters.  She writes:

In the discussion about Barack Obama’s candidacy, you often hear people say they are “color blind” — that they don’t look at Obama and see his race, that race is not something that even registers when they look at another person.

But they’re mistaken. Race is one of the first things you notice about people. And recent research suggests that most people have unconscious biases against black people in particular — feelings we may not even be aware of. That’s not to say that people are incurably racist. But we have to be aware of how we feel before we can change those feelings.

My response:

Well, you know she got some nasty comments after that series of columns.  It is to be expected.

And we are not color blind.  We see color.  We may not discriminate because of it but we do see it.  Anybody who says they don't is a liar.