Why Color Blindness Is a Counterproductive Adeology?

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For some people, raceism has become part of a definition of color blindness. One argument is that we need to put race into our current laws in order to essentially pay black people back for that history. Just the amount of racism in our society justifies policies of racial preference which fight that raceism. And then there's just the amount of systemic raceism in our society to day, forgetting history.

Coleman Hughes is the host of Conversations with Coleman. Racialized, his first book, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Coleman Hughes discuss how we can remain vigilant about racial injustice without treating others differently on account of their race; whether reparations for slavery are justified in theory and workable in practice; and how we should measure progress on race.

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