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Sociologists call this “colorblind racism”. The idea here is that racial inequality between whites and people of color exist and the move to not see race (i.e. be colorblind) benefits whites because they are allowed to keep their racial advantage while pretending that race isn’t important. This is akin to finding out at halftime that the referees in a football game are being paid to throw the game for one team and then this wining team suggesting, “Let’s just get new, fair refs for the second half and keep the score 43–0. Ok?” Ignoring inequality and advantage doesn’t make them go away.
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