For example, if you're white, where would you rather be walking the streets at 2:00 AM — in a neighborhood of large, well-kept, expensive houses owned and occupied by affluent blacks or in a dirty, garbage-littered neighborhood of dilapidated, crumbling apartments occupied by impoverished whites? 

Or conversely, if you're black, where would you rather be walking the streets at 2:00 AM — in a neighborhood of large, well-kept, expensive houses owned and occupied by affluent whites or in a dirty, littered neighborhood of dilapidated, crumbling apartments occupied by impoverished blacks? 

And now a different scenario along the same line of reasoning. 

If you're white, with whom would you rather spend an evening — a group of well-mannered, witty, well-read, courteous blacks or a bunch of ill-mannered, dull, ignorant, discourteous whites? 

Or if you're black, with whom would you rather spend an evening — a group of well-mannered, witty, well-read, courteous whites or a bunch of ill-mannered, dull, ignorant, discourteous blacks? 

So let me suggest that you search your memory, and focus upon the people in your life whom you liked or disliked, admired or disdained, respected or looked down upon, whose friendship you sought or avoided. I think you'll find that skin color by itself was rarely, if ever, the determining factor. 

And mightn't that be what Dr. King meant when he talked about color blindness — the right to shun or embrace, to like or dislike, to befriend or to alienate, to associate with or to avoid people without regard to skin color? 

Think about it.