One of the nasty tactics employed by the Left is to assert that people who argue in favor of racially neutral public policy (“color-blind”) are either lying (i.e., we really want white dominance but proclaim our color-blindness to mask it) or deceiving ourselves. This is a way of evading argument over the merits of racially neutral policies, such as admitting college students simply on the basis of their academic merit and desire to study, not to fill racial quotas.
In this essay, Coleman Hughes does a masterful job of countering the canard that color-blindness is a cover for racism.
Hughes writes, “In the early 1960s, there was an elite consensus that color-blindness was the goal of race politics. Then the race riots of the late 1960s led politicians and corporations to perform an about-face. They began implementing race-based policies as a hasty and pragmatic response to the riots—much like governments and corporations did in response to the riots of 2020. Today, you can scarcely find a professor in an elite institution who would defend color-blindness.”
I wish more writers would challenge the race hustlers and grifters who almost always get away with their anti-intellectual dodges.
Read the whole thing.