When the issue was created by racism, that's what you say caused it.
Not true.. Whites are victims of police misconduct and prosecutorial abuse all the ******* time.. Fixing that RACE BY RACE is just ignorant..
You can ASSERT "it a problem unique to blacks", but every other color knows that's not true.. And when you plunge right into remedies "for blacks only" -- some other colors will just tune you out right then and there. Because THEY KNOW - those things need to fixed. But NOT just for black folks..
Same thing with "gaps".. Like gaps in education or income or charm..
They are NOT unique to color and have UNDERLYING SYSTEMIC ISSUES that need to be fixed...
Yes it is true. A white police officer can harass a white person and a black person and the reason they harass the black person is because of race. Just because the same thing happens to a white person doesn't necessarily exclude raceas a factor no matter how desperately you want to practice colorblind racism.
I changed my mind because you're truly ignorant and want to excuse away racism when every study that has been done tells us that racism is built into our system.
Colorblind racism, is the belief that racism is no longer a problem and that we all have equal opportunities. People who subscribe to colorblind explanations claim they do not see the color of people's skin and believe everyone to be equal. Colorblindness prevents us from seeing the historical causes of racial inequality and how racial inequality persists in our society.
"Colorblind racism as a theory became more prominent in the 1960s and 1970s as racism continued to be based on beliefs about biological inferiority. However, race is not biologically based; in fact, there are far more differences within racial groups than between them.
Proponents of the colorblind racism theory propose that the ideology resulted from society’s increasingly complex arguments about race. Instead of relying on a simple biological argument, people started to suggest that, for example, the culture of certain minority groups was deficient, which explain their unequal access to opportunities like good jobs and schools. Other suggestions sited segregation as simply a matter of preference: we just like to live near people like us. These types of arguments often replaced more overt claims that some people are simply born inferior to other people."
You need to read the book: "Racism Without Racists."
In sociology, one of the most important scholars of race is Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, who has written extensively on the issue. His four frames of colorblind racism provide explanations for how this form of racism works:
"Abstract liberalism,
the first frame, sees racial inequality as a product of individuals not working hard enough. Liberalism emphasize freedom, equality, and individual choice. If people work hard enough, they can all achieve anything they set out to accomplish."
"Naturalization,
the second frame, explains racial inequality as a naturally occurring process. The fact that many of our cities’ neighborhoods are highly segregated is because people like to live near people who are like them. "
"Cultural racism, the third frame, relies on arguments that attribute racial inequality to a group’s culture. According to this argument, racial inequality occurs because individual group cultures may be deviant or negative and pass their poor values on to their children. "
"Minimization, the fourth frame, suggests that racism just doesn’t really matter that much anymore. People who rely on this frame claim that discrimination is no longer a serious problem. Bonilla-Silva notes that these frames are often used in combination with colorblind explanations for racial inequality."
Examples
"For instance, in the United States, African Americans and Latinos have lower graduation rates and less access to education than whites. Rather than looking at the historical factors that continue to oppress these groups, a colorblind argument might propose that minority groups don’t really see any value in education, and that’s why they have lower graduation rates.
Here’s another example. If you live in a segregated neighborhood, the colorblind explanation might fall along the lines of: minorities choose not to live in the neighborhood because they’d rather live with other minorities. And finally, to justify the economic inequality between minority groups and whites, a colorblind argument might state that minority groups don’t work hard enough and don’t understand the value of getting a job and working hard."
Color Blind Racism: Definition, Theory & Examples - full free lesson | Naturez-Vous
You minimize all the time. And flacaltenn, no one but white "conservatives" tune us out when we speak on race because all people of color face the same racism. For example unarmed native americans are getting killed like blacks, so when we speak on police racism they know that anything done for us, is done for them. Only whites like you have this zero sum attitude.
