The Color-Blindness In The Civil Rights Movement

Though, the Civil Rights Movement helped achieve equal opportunities for all races, Bonilla-Silva contended that there is still racial inequality that is still rooted in American society. When it comes to racism, she proposed four frames of color-blindness that deals with racial issues in the United States. The four frames of color-blindness: 1) Liberalism explains the dominance of a group that sees every group gaining access to education, housing, and employment. This frame demonstrates the bootstrap concept; people should work hard to reach their goal. 2) Naturalization is about personal preferences, taking the responsibility for the choices we make. 3)Cultural racism reconnects to the first two frames that deals with the bootstrap concept, however, criticizes the minority groups for their cultural values. 4) Finally, minimization is supposed to specify color-blind racism; if more people were more color-blind, society would be more peaceful. Color-blindness can be …show more content…
1992; Katz and Haas 1988). These phrases are the expressions of racial matters, however, the transformation of the post-civil war era to now, we still have the same racial issues that occurred in the late sixties and seventies. Just because when Barack Obama got elected back in 2008 to be President, doesn’t mean he is going to solve all race issues that is going on. Obama has done a lot for the minority group in his Presidency, however, with Trump in office, I feel like Obama’s progress of all people has gone downhill. With Trump being in Presidency, it is definitely becoming more challenging to have peace and come together as a country, however it seems like we are drifting further apart as racial issues is continuing to divide