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“Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it’ll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it’s there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It’s like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won’t heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly.”

Race Conversation Racism Fart Colorblindness

Book:I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

Source: I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“The petition argued that the Court's decision was a dire mistake; if the decision were allowed to stand and prosecutors were compelled to explain gross racial disparities such as the ones at issue, it would...'paralyze the criminal justice system'—apparently because severe and inexplicable racial disparities pervaded the system as a whole.”

Criminal Justice System Institutional Racism Implicit Bias Colorblindness

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“The McCleskey decision was not really about the death penalty at all; rather, the Court's opinion was driven by a desire to immunize the entire criminal justice system from claims of racial bias...Racial discrimination, the Court seemed to suggest, was something that simply must be tolerated in the criminal justice system, provided no one admits to racial bias.”

Racism Implicit Bias Colorblindness

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it.”

Race Racism Colorblindness

Book:The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Source: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the challenges of the Civil Rights Era. Colorblind ideology allows society to deny the reality of racism in the face of its persistence, while making it more difficult to challenge than when it was openly espoused.”

Racism Racism In America Whiteness Colorblindness Colorblind Racism

Book:What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

“If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois’s famous words, “the problem of the color line,” then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.”

Race Racism Colorblindness Du Bois

Book:The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America

Source: The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America

“Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?" "Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color." "Cross on the green and not in between.”

Race Racism Race Relations Colorblindness

Book:The White Boy Shuffle

Source: The White Boy Shuffle

“Colorblindness, though widely touted as the solution, is actually the problem.”

Politics Race Racism Social Justice Anti Racism Colorblindness

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“i am equal parts sick of your go back to Africa & i just don't see race. neither did the poplar tree.”

Race Racism Colorblindness

Book:Don't Call Us Dead

Source: Don't Call Us Dead