Color Blind

A lot of people’s responses to this racism and inequality is to say that we should all just be colorblind. We should see people as

Racism is a word that sparks a nerve in many individuals today. As hard as it is to believe, racism is still a big factor in what we as a society know as a unified America. Although, it is not as obvious as it was in the past, it still goes on, just in ways that are less noticeable. We ask the question, is the emphasis on a color-blind society an answer to racism. Ward Connerly claims it is a way to stop the segregation and make America a whole as it has been striving to be for the longest. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva believes color-blind racism is the new racial ideology and still brings about racial inequality. As the solution to the question progresses, we ask ourselves, will a

Colorblindness has helped disseminate racism in the United States since the Civil Rights movements of the mid-sixties, by perpetuating anti-blackness and racial discrimination against other minorities. Colorblindness is a new form of racism, the new “Jim Crow” which “Legitimizes the state and society as racially neutral although they are not neutral” and creates the belief that we have become post-racial and we are all equal. While preaching homogeneity, colorblindness uses mechanisms by which white racial domination is structured and as a result, colorblind racism has caused a widespread of anti-blackness and racial discrimination against Latinos, Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians.

Making a difference between races is something that could have been influenced when growing up. Everyone needs to be treated the same regardless of what race they belong to. "Racial profiling is unjustified with general problems with profiling, and those specific to racial profiling itself is not clear that it is always unjustified, because it might reduce serious threats to people's lives, liberties, and property" (Lever, 2007). What people believe is right to do is unfair and cruel to others. The way of thinking should be that everyone should be treated equal no matter what race people are. Everyone deserves respect and to have no differences between someone else.

When Dr. King said, we shouldn’t be judged by the color of our skin, he didn’t mean to start up this colorblind illusion. What he truly meant was we should get to the part where race doesn’t matter but we still acknowledge the color of a person’s skin but not judge them based off it. Colorblind is a sociological term for the ignorance of a person’s race when making a choice of who will participate in activities and receive the service they need. Dr. King had a quote he said, “What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter, if you can’t afford to buy a hamburger?” Dr. King wasn’t about being colorblind, he wanted racial

Do you think people should be judged on their color , race , features , etc. ? Well , if you do your wrong . NOBODY should be judge just because of their color . Everybody should get the same respect . If people continue to let people down , make them very sad just because of their race , someone could get hurt ! Us humans should take a stand . You shouldn’t be able to not do anything you want without being a certain color.

A popular notion says a child is born “color-blind” and remains color-blind until they reach adolescence. The problem with this concept is that people believe it to be a positive idea. However, it actually presents a damaging ideology – it suggests that race should not be a factor when trying to determine the type of person an individual is. I see it as an unsophisticated approach to view people because race is a vital part of our existence. Race is an attribute that makes individuals differ from one another, and the problem is not the differences in the colors of our skin. The problem is that we attempt to detach ourselves from the reality of being racially different. Racism will seem to inevitably exist, and in order to even try to end the malice, parents should begin teaching children about racism the right way.

Many people in the United States society believe that people of all cultures, races, and ethnicities are now on an even playing field. People with this belief support their logic with the argument that since equal rights for people of color and women have been required by law for some time now, we are all inherently as equal as claimed in the Declaration of Independence. Many believe that race is no longer an issue, a viewpoint frequently referred to as color-blindness. National polling data indicated that a majority of whites now believe discrimination against racial minorities no longer exists. (Gallagher, 96) Color-blindness allows a white person to define himself or herself as politically and racially tolerant and then proclaim their

While an ally might be aware of colorblind racism they must realise that being aware without putting in an effort to interact with people of color only perpetuates white habitus. For example, an ally can’t simply say that they’re okay with having minority friends, but when promoted about them say things like “ ‘I’d have to say my three best friends are white girls, but I definitely had an excellent girlfriend that was African American’ “ (127) only to clarify that they never really hung out with that black friend. Statements like these only promote white habitus, leading white people to assume things like there’s no problem with race or how people of color stay segregated in their own communities because it’s their “natural” inclination to do so. By interacting with people of color, an ally can dispel the ideas about race caused by living and interacting solely with only other white folks, thus challenging the prejudices brought upon them by colorblind racism. In addition to challenging colorblind racism in themselves, an effective ally should also educate others in their fight for equality. Many people believe that racism has died out with slavery and while that is true, slavery and Jim Crow racism does not exist in modern day society, a new type of racism does- colorblind

In his article, “Why Millennials Can’t Afford to Be Colorblind” for the online edition of the Times, Victor Luckerson demonstrates how denying the existence of racism results in a country unable to discuss sensitive topics and progress. As a result of that, the public school systems, which there are 49.5 million students, are still segregated.

Nevertheless it is clear solution that effects of neoliberal policies on people everywhere even creating the structural racism. Furthermore, the racial hierarchy became hegemonic and today the term of racism is not only colorblind but also it is neoliberalism. In United States, neo-liberal racism images that "racial discrimination and inequalities as thing of the past" while creating racial inequality and hieararchy. The following review of Eduardo Bonilla 's work, White Supremacy and Racism in the Post- civil Rights Era, publish that "Color blind racism articulates elements from the free market ideology and culturally based arguments to justify the contemporary racial order....Although color blindness sound progressive, its themes, style, and storylines are used to explain and justify racial inequality." In

Microaggressions in the workplace are often meant to maintain the marginalized target’s position as inferior, as they discredit their work ethic, ability, and worth. Although females now make up more of the workforce than ever before, they still are underpaid and put in lower positions compared to their male counterparts (211). Despite this, they often face more outside pressures than males because they are usually responsible for domestic duties, as well. Those of color are also more employed now than in the past, but this may simply be due to increased migration and births of minority groups, but they still make up less than their white coworkers (212). This is severely problematic because these groups will continue to contribute to paying

Living in a society where being colorblind is now a trend, it is hard for most individuals to believe that racism still exits, and still taunts minorities through laws. Although transitioning away from slavery and the civil rights movement has assisted African Americans’ in longer being suppressed in society— another obstacle of suppression is a live, and runs through the criminal justice system. In this paper you will see how and why drug laws were created and its effects, how law inequality is supported by racial discrimination; criminal justice policies and its leading to the rise of incarceration rates, the promotion of the Rockefeller drug law by African Americans’, and Clinton’s reaction toward the 1994 law.

First thing that I would like to address is the fact that racism still exists within all cultures. Some people won’t admit that they are racist, but their actions and words prove otherwise. Most people won’t directly discriminate other races, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen everyday. Many will argue that their race is superior over another, or that their actions of a few individuals of a certain race determines how that race of people are, therefore making them unequal. I think all people should be treated equally, no matter who they are or what they look like. From a personal experience, I have witnessed racial discrimination, not something that happened to someone else but to me right in front of my eyes as I head home. For one, I was one of those people that never thought racism had ended but thought that it has dimmed its light. It was not

When it comes to racism, many say that they’re colorblind, that they don’t pay attention to race. Although these statements are benevolent, we should discuss why it is racist and harmful. To say that you see everyone without a skin color, without a culture or race, and believing that this can end racism, is incorrect. When you ignore or deny the color of someones skin, you ignore racism.