Way back in those halcyon days of Martin Luther King the charge of racism related to someone’s failing to be colour blind. Instead of judging someone on the quality of her character, or the strength of her work ethic, or the bigness of her heart, the bigot back then was one who judged on the basis of inherited qualities over which the person being judged had no control – the type of skin pigmentation or the variety of reproductive organs.
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