Can a blind African-American man experience racism?

Question

Being that racism is something that's seen-can someone without sight know it

Answer 1

Of course. Everyone else would have to be blind, not the African American blind man. Anyway, you should ask Ray Charles if he knew he was being segregated when he was asked to enter his own concerts through a separate door marked "******". Ray Charles refused to play a segregated show in Georgia in the 1960s and was subsequently banned by the legislature from performing ever in that state!
Racism isn't about being blind or not blind, it's about fear. Racism is synonymous with cowardice. I have never met a racist person who was not also a coward. They are scared of everything! Have you ever met a racist who was not deep down just a coward?

Answer 2

A blind African-American man can experience racism.
When you say 'experience' you mean being affected by it. So if someone didn't like blind people, or African Americans, or males, they could express racism in a number of ways and yes, it would affect him even if he couldn't see them. He could hear them.
Racism isn't something that is seen. It is an attitude, and it can be expressed in writing, in song, in words, and in many other ways. If someone throws up a picket line in front of a building that hires blacks, or chinese, or laotians or whatever, the people on that picket line don't stand their quietly holding their signs. They yell slogans and shout at people going in and out of the building, so even if a bystander were blind, s/he would be well aware of what was going on.

Answer 3

Of course. Racism is not just a visual thing. It is visual, audible, situational, etc. And although a blind man may not be racist himself on visual cues, he could certainly experience the racism of others on visual cues!

Answer 4

Absolutely. Music is a hearing-related thing, and Beethoven was deaf. He was still a virtuoso, wasn't he? If any person is introduced to racial discrimination of any sort, they can experience it. What if a blind white child listens to anti-black movements on the radio, hears it from his parents, etc. Although he will not be able to see a black person, he will feel hatred toward them, wherever they may be.

Answer 5

yea. racism isn't just something that's seen. He still has the senses of hearing and touch, which are two other ways to experience racism.

Answer 6

Ask Stevie Wonder. The issue of racism is dealt with in his album "Songs in the Key of Life."

Answer 7

Of course. Racism is not only expressed by visible actions, but also through comments and actions.

Answer 8

Anybody blind or not; white or black can experience racism.

Answer 9

Anyone can.

Racism is a man made concept,therefore it can be applied to anybody.

Its all in how you use it.

Answer 10

the victim of racism is not victimized by what he sees. But, at the actions others take based on what they see.

OF COURSE...