Color Blindness in The White Boy Shuffle, by Paul Beatty Essay

Generally speaking, color blindness is soundless to be the best way to engage racial problem. This concept is revealed and discussed in Paul Beattys allegory, The White Boy Shuffle. The novel portrays a young African American Gunnars life story that in general focuses on his experiences and identities in different places. In the part of Gunnars childhood life in Santa Monica when mostly surrounded by white individuals, he is continuously indoctrinated with the sentiment of color blindness which is widely advocated by heap in this community in order to alleviate racism. However, with massive icon of color blindness ideology and application in Mestizo Mulatto son of a bitch Elementary, the novel addresses color blindness is not a practical system for dealing with racism by exhibiting awkward contradictions it creates surrounded by color ignorance methodology and color detectable eyesight of human nature. Based on the encounters from Gunnar in the novel, massively using the c oncept of color blindness will not change people and societys perspective toward colored races. The lilliputian and ineffectiveness from this idea stress the difference between races. Implicitly, it is a late mode of racism. The only way to eliminate color-oriented issues is by acknowledging the difference between races and all amalgamate into one homogenous group.The novel firstly shows the idea of color blindness by staging of a teachers T-shirt, the T-shirt has words black, white, red, yellow, dark-brown and human on it, which means that color of the skin is an ignorable fact under(a) the definition of Human being. (28) To make this idea seemingly sound to students, Ms. Cegeny raise addresses it by writing Eracism-The sun doesnt care what color you... ...he turn over is necessary. These two words indicate the current status of our societys transformation. The process maybe painful, but the payoff will be worthwhile. The final exam equilibrium and balance between individual s can be accomplished by acknowledging difference without dividing races like grey harmonious elephants.These passages are based on the development of Gunnars comprehension and vision about colorblindness. From a worshiper to a critic, from a listener to a questioner, from the above discussion incorporated, this novel rebuts toward the effectiveness of colorblindness and illustrated about the new type of racism it creates. Lastly, through Gunnars reading about black and white elephants, advocated an idea of combing and stick to instead of dividing.Works CitedBeatty, Paul. The White Boy Shuffle, Henry Holt and Company pertly York, 1996. Print.