This is the root of my disagreement with "you and others" on the issue. First, we aren't passing on colourblindness. Because we, or at least most of us, are not colourblind. Our societies certainly aren't. But my goal is to pass on a more colourblind mindset. Yours seems to be the opposite. I believe it's your goal that can only make the problem worse. As, to be fair, we're currently seeing in our increasingly fractured racial discourse.

I'm not sure whether your parents were trying to pass colourblindness on to you, but they obviously didn't do so. You are focused on skin colour to at least the same degree as most white supremacists, and you convince yourself that this is okay because your motivations aren't hateful. I fundamentally believe you're wrong about this.

As I think I've already said to you, there are undeniably problems that affect people of colour because of their "race" and racism. Acknowledging disproportionate treatment at a policy level to fix these problems is, of course, necessary. But you seem to completely miss how, at the personal level, "the colour line" is a mirage that we keep alive, to varying degrees, in our own minds.

My endgame, as I've said countless times, is the realisation of MLK's dream. A world where we judge people by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. To achieve that, it's obvious to me that we need to arrive at a place where we stop considering the colour of our skin important. Just as, more successfully though not entirely, we've stopped considering the sex of the person people love as important, or people's dominant hand important. or the shape of the skull as important.

I don't understand how you believe we can continue to hold skin colour in such primacy, and simultaneously not divide ourselves on the basis of it. I don't understand how you think teaching the next generation that they're forever connected to other people's suffering, purely because of the colour of their skin, allows future generations to move past the stupid notion of racism and race essentialism.

We've gone back and forth for weeks, and you still haven't engaged with this point.