Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
Being color-blind in fact is very dangerous for the reasons you cite.
In addition, being color-blind, while generally a good thing, can be dangerous when dealing with people who are not color-blind. Now as to gender-blindness... why limit the question to women? (I'm kidding, but a
would demean the topic).
That being said, the question posed by the OP is certainly interesting... my wise-guy answer would probably be that the first black FA in the US was probably on a foreign carrier.