&gt; It did counter the &quot;I didn&#x27;t realize he was black until halfway through&quot; however.<p>I don&#x27;t know about that. I saw a picture of a tattooed wrist. I&#x27;m not claiming that I&#x27;m Mr. Color-Blind Progressive 2016, but that photo didn&#x27;t lodge a note in my mind that said &quot;the author is black&quot;. I saw a photo of a wrist and didn&#x27;t think twice about it.<p>That was kind of my original point, the implication that a black person posting a photo of themselves is signaling &quot;I am black&quot; in a way that a white person is never seen to be signaling &quot;I am white&quot;.