Color Blind or Color Brave?

Within many lives of youth today, the feeling of invisibility to the individuals and world around them occurs. Children today are scrutinized within their every day life being told the proper way to act and behave. Teachers in a classroom often encourage to hear students thoughts and ideas but are not necessarily to put their input when it comes to lesson plans and the curriculum. Growing up, I always felt comfortable with my teachers to share ideas and opinions. Unfortunately, I never felt comfortable enough nor was ever encouraged to lead the class with my teacher.

In Melody Hobsons TED talk, she does a tremendous job explaining "color blindness" in today's society. Hobson explains "color blindness" as the concept of how we pretend to not acknowledge race. Hobson uses an example of a time she attended a national press dinner. To her surprise, she was mistaken for the wait staff being asked "where is your uniform?", due to the color of her skin. Melody Hobson, learned at a young age that inequality exists and has spent much of her life trying to encourage diversity within the work place.

An organization working to change color blindness into color bravery would definitely be Youth in Action! YIA helps to create a safe space for teens along with helping to make everyone apart of the community. The youth apart of this program are taught how important using their voice is.  The idea of invisibility can be conquered immediately by joining Youth in Action. Youth in Action is helping to turn today's youth into brave individuals who are helping make changes one day at a time.

"We need to become uncomfortable with the conversation of race." Color blindness and color bravery all comes from who we are and how we continue to view the world around us. Racial inequality still exists around us,but we must continue to work towards "color brave" and open our mind and thoughts to the idea. No one must live a life feeling invisible.