Today, the Martin Center publishes the second part of Professor John Staddon’s essay on the toxic academic stew of “color blind racism” (CBR).

Staddon’s focus here is mainly on the language ploy used by the people who make their living by denouncing “whiteness” and “white privilege.”

Staddon writes, “To many modern sociologists, color blindness is a racist weapon that works, somehow, through whiteness, a scheme of thought invisible to most whites, but revealed by CBR sociology.” To these so-called scholars, there’s a white tribe intent on keeping everyone else under their heels and it operates through their invented notion of whiteness. And don’t try denying it — that merely proves their point (in their heads, anyway).

The CBR movement demands power — power to ensure equality of results over racial groups. We have been moving in that direction for decades, thanks largely to white politicians eager to win with minority votes, but the CBR zealots insist that we must do more to break the imagined hegemony of “whiteness.”

In that effort, logic, and objectivity must be rejected, since they’re merely tools of white oppression, you know. Staddon points out that the Nazis used the same divisive tactics, saying that they opposed “Jewish logic” and “Jewish physics.” Divide and conquer once again.

Staddon concludes,

So what is the new racism? There seem to be at least three definitions: Is it the “color-blindness = white supremacy = racism” that CBR sociologists attribute to the American people? Is it the simple “race should not matter” ideal that the American people actually believe? Or is it CBR’s “equality of outcomes,” the proposal to abolish objective, non-racial measures of ability in favor of totalitarian racial apportionment of jobs, degrees and all other avenues to wealth? Ask yourself whether we are moving in the right direction by looking at each other through the CBR lens.
Dear reader, you decide.

Part I of Professor Staddon’s essay is here.