I have succumb to the world of color blindness, just like all the other college students interviewed in this book, and while that is a hard pill to swallow, I would rather face it than be stuck in the dark forever. The piece of this book that spoke to me the most, and felt to relate to the thesis in the most direct and interesting way was chapter 4, The Style Of Color Blindness. In this chapter Bonilla-Silva outlines the strategies whites use to maintain color blind racism. From the “some of my best friends are minorities” argument, all the way to projecting racism onto minorities, claiming that it’s black people who choose to live together, so how can we stop segregation? These arguments allow whites to live in a world where race doesn 't matter, while ignoring the discrimination that they are a part of creating. Stating that they don’t mind interracial marriage, but worry about the children. Or don’t want to see themselves or someone they love hurt by affirmative action. Or using words such as “colored” to describe African Americans even though that word has long since gone out of
I have succumb to the world of color blindness, just like all the other college students interviewed in this book, and while that is a hard pill to swallow, I would rather face it than be stuck in the dark forever. The piece of this book that spoke to me the most, and felt to relate to the thesis in the most direct and interesting way was chapter 4, The Style Of Color Blindness. In this chapter Bonilla-Silva outlines the strategies whites use to maintain color blind racism. From the “some of my best friends are minorities” argument, all the way to projecting racism onto minorities, claiming that it’s black people who choose to live together, so how can we stop segregation? These arguments allow whites to live in a world where race doesn 't matter, while ignoring the discrimination that they are a part of creating. Stating that they don’t mind interracial marriage, but worry about the children. Or don’t want to see themselves or someone they love hurt by affirmative action. Or using words such as “colored” to describe African Americans even though that word has long since gone out of