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 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.
Diversity alone doesn't mean equality
"... Brazil is racially mixed – more than any country on Earth, Brazilians say. Much less discussed, but equally visible – in every restaurant white patrons and black waiters, in every high rise a black doorman ..."
Sounds like Manhattan.
Colorblindness in France
Ask the Franco-Maghrebis, the young Arabs who live deep in the slums of Paris; ask them if France's "colorblind" policy is working for them.
They'll laugh in your face!
Colorblind Cubans & Lily-White Republican Politics: Race, Rubio, & Ted Cruz
"#TedCruz wears what Eduardo Bonilla-Silva would call the perfectly sewn up coat of colorblind rhetoric."
contemporaryracism.org/3089/cruz-wear…
#WhiteNationalism
#BlackLivesMatter
25 years AFTER the Civil War.
134 years ago ...
"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions"
— Maud Cuney Hare
The Future is NOW!
Why African Americans left the Republican Party
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South – initiated with President Herbert Hoover’s blessing ."
broadstreet.blog/2020/09/14/the…
‘Colorblind politics’ are the tool of white supremacists and those who whore for their votes."
-- @eyeveaux
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