What Does “Color-Blind” Really Mean?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
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The Evolution of Colorblind Racism
Ibram Zuckerman: In Stamped, you trace the long and winding history of versions of this idea. He says it was in 1997 when President Clinton decided to lead what he called a national conversation on race. And Republicans challenged that decision by stating that race was no longer a factor,. That racism didn't exist, that the nation was colorblind.Zuckerman: Any effort to consider race in making public policy is itself an act of racial discrimination.
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