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How to respond when people claim colorblindness while demanding representation

I am tired of my white friends saying they do not see color when they clearly see it enough to ask me to speak for all Indians whenever something happens in the news.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Colorblind rhetoric masks continued racialization while placing impossible representational burdens on individuals.

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