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Colorblind Racism

“If race disappears as a category of official division, as it has in most of the world, this will facilitate the emergence of a plural racial order where the groups exist in practice but are not official recognized - and anyone ....

... and anyone trying to address racial division is likely to be chided for racializing the population.”

— Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: #ColorBlindRacism

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The ironic and inevitable consequence: Racial and Ethnic Violence. Those dissimilar identities that predate Nationalism will not bend a knee. They will refuse to be nationalized, de-negrofied, Putinized.

They will resist.
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My Name Is John Punch: I am the first LEGAL #racialslave in human history.

I do not remember much about my past. That said, I do remember I wass born in the most beautiful place in the world —Africa.

I don't recall where in Africa.

Maybe Cameroon, Gabon or the Ivory Coast.
"They don't see race, but they benefit from racism."

— Charisse C. Levchak

#ColorblindRacism
"It is a sad truth of our history that American slavery based on race was invented in Virginia, very close to where I sit today.'

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Colorblind Racism

“If race disappears as a category of official division, as it has in most of the world, this will facilitate the emergence of a plural racial order where the groups exist in practice but are not official recognized - and anyone ....
... and anyone trying to address racial division is likely to be chided for racializing the population.”

— Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: #ColorBlindRacism

amazon.com/Racism-without…
The Case for Diversity

"The state prefers to endorse a uniform, homogenized culture, as such a culture would be simple to identify and easy to control."

Romila Thapar, Nationalism
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"Racist policy disguised as race-neutral policy is still racist if it affects minorities disproportionally. EVEN IF THAT WASN'T THE INTENT."

-- Adam Savage

#JimCrow
#ColorblindRacism

"Might not be in the back of the bus
But it sho' feel just the same

— Prince, "Dear Mr. Man"
Colorblind Injustice | J. Morgan Kousser | University of North Carolina Press uncpress.org/book/978080784…
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