
“But I literally can’t see you!” exclaimed Brandon Kline. Mr. Kline was responding to a disgruntled neighbor who accused him of being colorblind and not noticing her skin color when he offered her vanilla Christmas cookies. Mr. Kline and other members of the blind community have been targets of a growing number of people accusing colorblind people of racism. Thoroughly confusing to report on, and even more confusing to live though, the blind community has been crippled by the color awareness movement. “I am exhausted. I am going to use my 6th sense to try to determine skin color by dialect, accent, smell, and other racist ways to try to treat people as differently and colorfully as possible. My biggest problem is multi-racial people. They are impossible! One time I smelled cumin, heard a Jersey accent, and felt dry skin in the handshake. It was the half white, sunburned son of my Indian colleague. How am I supposed to sense all that?”