Colorblind Law in a Race-Obsessed Nation
Colorblindness sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. As Chief Justice John Roberts once put it, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” As a legal matter, maybe that’s the right way to go. But the social fact of race is too tenacious, too deeply embedded in our nation’s history, thought, and feeling to dismiss with the bang of a gavel. In this clip from our most recent conversation, John and I consider the ways that opposing sides of the colorblindness debate often talk past each other.
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"All lives matter". Do you remember the hissy fit that progressives had, because of that statement?
Glenn and John perpetuate the myth that the only racism that exists, the only racism that matters, is white racism against blacks. To cherry-pick which racism will be discussed is RACIST.
We know that there is blatant racism against Asians, in the name of DEI. There is also blatant discrimination against white men. Many can quote the statistics of 'discrimination' by businesses owned by white men. OK, what about the discrimination by black owners against white men? OF women owned businesses against men? As far as I know, those statistics have never been determined. Why not?
The democratic party is, was, and apparently always will be the party of institutional racism.
There is a lot more money to be had following the DEI route than the color blind route.