Word: colorblindness
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...Democrats and the Republicans seem now to agree on ending special privileges based on race. They seem to be heading toward a colorblind affirmative action," he said. "The problem with this is that racism and sexism are not things of the past. A pattern of discrimination based on race still exists...
...long as admissions and hiring preferences favor Blacks on the basis of race, can Blacks ever escape the gnawing uncertainty over whether they would still have gotten in had they been white? In 1985, Derek Bok stated that if admissions were colorblind, only I percent of Harvard's entering class would be Black. In Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Yale Law professor Stephen Carter flatly admits, "I got into law school because I am Black." For other Black professionals, Carter writes, "the matter of who got where and how is left in a studied and, I think, purposeful ambiguity...
...from numerous articles in student publications and from conversations with other Black students, I have learned that the University police are not colorblind. Black students simply cannot rely on Harvard police to serve and protect them...
...along, U.S. Attorney Donaldson, a white Republican, vehemently dismissed the charge of bias. Says he: "We're colorblind, and we simply follow the evidence where it leads." Last fall that evidence led to Atlanta architect Tarlee Brown, a former business partner of Arrington's, who pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding the city. Brown says he paid the mayor $5,000 in kickbacks for city architectural work, a charge Arrington denies. While the mayor contended that his records will exonerate him, he also claimed that turning the documents over to the prosecutors may allow them to concoct a case against...
This is precisely the sort of thinking I oppose. Minorities should not feel that socializing with fellow minorities is a liberation, an escape from the whites. We ought to be colorblind in forming friendships...