Reni Eddo Lodge Color Blindness

Racism and discrimination have been issues for far too long in our society. Although some of it has been curbed, racism is still evident in most parts of our lives. In an attempt to treat others without regard to race, many people started using the term ‘racial color blindness.’ I made a short animation to analyze the flaws of the word color-blind in response to Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, and the New York Times article about Coleman Hughes written by Jeremy Peters. The use of animation rather than a still art piece allows my artistic creation to depict the ineffectiveness of claiming to be color-blind as one cannot help but notice the race of someone they are interacting with. The animation flashes to a colored picture from black and white when the black individual is talking to …show more content…
The major issue Reni Eddo-Lodge addresses is how quick many white people are to ignore racism and downplay its effects. After stating she would no longer be talking to white people about racial issues, Eddo-Lodge goes on to say, “Not all white people, just the vast majority who refuse to accept the legitimacy of structural racism and its symptoms. I can no longer engage with the gulf of an emotional disconnect that white people display when a person of colour articulates their experience” (xiii). This reveals the lack of understanding people exhibit when faced with differing perspectives. In my animation, the colored image is only visible when those of color are speaking to demonstrate how the emotional disconnect Eddo-Lodge discusses typically only affects one side of the conversation. The animation also shows the subjects standing in a plain room to show that discrimination can, and does, happen

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