Word: colorblind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common complaint among many Negroes-and more than a few whites -is that U.S. justice is all too often far from colorblind. Three recent criminal cases, all involving youthful Negro defendants and all leading to harsh sentences, have prompted black and white citizens alike to protest the severity of the courts...
...generals are troubled by the possibility that black soldiers will find that they owe higher fealty to the black community than to the U.S. Army. "The problem is so fearful," admits one officer, "that we won't even discuss these people as Negroes." Yet the Army, officially colorblind, cannot single out black soldiers and question their reliability in advance...
...least one, the Rev. Vendyl Jones of Sudan, Texas, lent civilian support. Wandering near the Jordan border from a kibbutz where he had been working, the Baptist minister started talking to the Israeli commander, who soon discovered that the Rev. Mr. Jones possessed a rare skill. His eyes, though colorblind, are somehow uniquely sensitive to the kind of synthetic dyes used in camouflage fabrics. "When I see that kind of dye," he explained, "it shines like new money." Peering through binoculars, he soon spotted, clear as neon, the important details of a neatly concealed Jordanian gun emplacement a mile away...
Farmer traces CORE's development back to 1942, when it was so colorblind that one of its white female work ers, mugged in an apartment corridor, neglected to tell police that her assailant was a Negro-"for fear," writes Farmer, "of indicating prejudice." Now, he notes, CORE is in a "mood ebony," and he quotes a man as telling him, "Brother Farmer, we've got to dig being black." No black nationalist, Farmer digs it nonetheless. "We are not so worried if we get to be known as Negroes," he writes. We are desegregationists, not necessarily integrationists...
PASTEL BLUES (Philips). Whoever called these blues pastel is colorblind. This is raw, strong and often ugly singing by Nina Simone, who makes one chilling visit to the South (Strange Fruit-"black bodies swinging from the trees") but mostly moans and shouts with gospel fervor about love and loneliness (End of the Line, Ain't No Use). Be My Husband is sung to the accompaniment of a loudly cracking whip...