Excerpts from the article: And the magic of white supremacyis that its presence is obscured by the focus on race. When ablack teenager is unfairly profiled bypolice, we say it’s “because of the color of his skin,” which—as a construction—avoids the racism at play, from the segregated neighborhood the officer patrols to the pervasive beliefin black criminality that shapes our approach to crime. Likewise, it obscures the extent towhich this isn’t just different treatment— it’s unequal treatment rooted in unequal conditions. Millennials have grown up in aworld where we talkabout race without racism—ordon’t talk about it at all—and where “skin color” is the explanation for racial inequality, as if ghettos are ghettos because they are black, and not because theywere created.As such, their views on racism —where you fight bias bydenying it matters to outcomes—are muddled and confused. Which gets to the irony of this survey: A generation that hates racism but chooses colorblindness is a generation that, through its neglect, comes to perpetuate it.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:23:39 +0000
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