Comments on: Re: Colour Blindness http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/86/re-colour-blindness/ improvising ideas and inspiring change Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Harrison http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/86/re-colour-blindness/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Harrison Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:21:18 +0000 http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/86/re-colour-blindness/#comment-73 Kevan, I absolutely agree. I was going to craft another lengthy response to this, but I don't really see the need. You basically covered it. Thanks for such a thoughtful response. I absolutely love the idea of seeing past race. I was thinking about such things as that Bible verse that says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Our interaction with God, according to the Bible, should exist on more senses than just basic sight. I think our interaction with people needs to be similar. We use sight so often that we often fail to realize that is not the only way to experience a person. I'm not saying we should lick them, but there are other faculties for the interpretation of the human being than seeing them . . . Do we see a piece of cake? Or see a piece of sandpaper? Or see an animal? No, we have an interactive experience with these things. The experience may begin with sight because that's the sense we privilege, but it always goes beyond it. I don't know how we ever got to a point where we could make judgments about human people on sight alone, but we did. And we need to get back to experiencing people rather than seeing them. Kevan, I absolutely agree. I was going to craft another lengthy response to this, but I don’t really see the need. You basically covered it. Thanks for such a thoughtful response.

I absolutely love the idea of seeing past race. I was thinking about such things as that Bible verse that says, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Our interaction with God, according to the Bible, should exist on more senses than just basic sight. I think our interaction with people needs to be similar. We use sight so often that we often fail to realize that is not the only way to experience a person. I’m not saying we should lick them, but there are other faculties for the interpretation of the human being than seeing them . . .

Do we see a piece of cake? Or see a piece of sandpaper? Or see an animal? No, we have an interactive experience with these things. The experience may begin with sight because that’s the sense we privilege, but it always goes beyond it. I don’t know how we ever got to a point where we could make judgments about human people on sight alone, but we did. And we need to get back to experiencing people rather than seeing them.

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