Word: colorblind
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...administration has been in the forefront of the opponents of broad racial preferences, with President Reagan advocating a "colorblind society." The administration has said quotas should be banned because they injure the innocent, usually white males...
Martin Luther King Jr., who died before his dream could be realized, has been refashioned by the Reaganites as the leading critic of affirmative action. After all, wasn't he attacking quotas when he spoke of a colorblind society...
Author Angela Davis, professor of Black Philosophy at San Francisco State University, expresses wariness of "the white women's burden," as she labels the chauvinistic tendencies of Western feminists. Caught up in the question of gender, they can be colorblind to the crucial ethnic and cultural differences among women, succumbing to imperialist logic in the domain of female sexuality...
...case you're colorblind, Cornell clearly crested in the Colgate game. Lafayette will take aim and brush...
...would hardly believe he is chairman of the Civil Rights Commission, which stated in a 1981 report--before Reagan could stack the committee--that "Race, sex, and national origin discrimination are not relies of the past existing solely as isolated acts of prejudice in an almost colorblind and gender-neutral society. The discrimination that minorities and women experience is far more pervasive, entrenched, and varied than many of the critics of affirmative action assume...