Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?
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Coleman Jamel's Argument for a Colorblind Society
Jamel: Coleman Jamel is making the case that Dr. King and others, while using the term colorblindness as an aspiration, were not opposed to race specific solutions and policies. He says it would be convenient for his opponent in this debate if there were analogously explicit quotes of someone like MLK or Bayard Rustin saying we're for a race-based policy. The leaders of the civil rights movement,. King Randolph Wilkins and others, were explicit in opposing reverse discrimination. They were opposed on philosophical grounds, but were also motivated by pragmatic political considerations.
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