Martin Luther King Jr wanted America to become a nation where people were judged not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.
Institutionally, and for the most part the citizenry as well, has done exactly that. Then the hate and segregationally driven mandate of Affirmative Action arrived, and we were back to looking at skin color as a definitive point for deciding things such as who gets government jobs and who gets into the best schools.
That beast has been out into a coma, most thankfully.
But it is not dead yet, and some folks, notably on the left, are angry that we have a national policy of color-blindness. Â
Bush’s racial policy of “color blindness” is a public policy of benign neglect of racial problems. Color blindness is a whitewash of racial issues because it disenfranchises black Americans by ignoring them as politically insignificant.
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Black writer Ralph Ellison once observed that the hidden injury of racism was the way a bigot looked right through a black man, as if he didn’t exist. In the jaundiced eye of the white bigot; black folks don’t have a soul like the rest of humanity. For many white Americans, black Americans are devoid of any redeeming features as a human being.
Bush’s policy on racial color blindness confirms that attitude. It allows white Americans to insulate themselves from any discussion about the hidden injuries of race. Racial color blindness is about the most racially divisive public policy that a president could dream up.
Like I said in the title, I am confused now.
Not paying attention to or caring about the skin color of my fellow man/woman is now considered racist because I’m ignoring something someone else of my own skin pigment may or may not have done to them or their ancestors?
I will never understand the liberal mind, and frankly, I don’t want to.
The post that the above diatribe came from was sparked by the case of the Louisiana school bus driver who had black students move to the back so that she could seat some white students up front.
Am I the only one who believes the part of this story that will never come out is that the white students were trouble makers and the bus driver wanted them seated right up front where she could keep an eye on them?