Ursula K. Le Guin wants to clear something up about the Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of her books. (I vaguely remember reading the books decades ago, but I couldn’t wrap my head around them at the time.) But she says this,
I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don’t notice, don’t care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being “colorblind.” Nobody else does.
Is it true? I don’t know. Should I start caring what color your skin is?
Not So Fast 