Racial Realism And Racism
Whether there must be a shift toward Racial Realism, in light of Liberalism’s idealistic failings and subsequent devastating effects on society.
Critical Race Theory emerged in the 1970’s, founded by prominent lawyers and advocates who were frustrated with the stagnant racial advances seen in the 1960’s. CRT seeks to “investigate the relationship between race, racism, and power, particularly as it relates to law.” CRT’s fundamental principles are:
1. Racism is individual, societal, and structural
2. Racism benefits whites both materially and psychologically
3. Races are socially constructed
4. Every race has their own, unique experience with race
5. New races can emerge
6. Minorities bring a new perspective when it comes to race and racism …show more content…
Colorblindness is the idea that disregarding race in society will promote racial harmony and end discrimination. The case can be made that colorblindness is a contemporary 21st-century form of racism, or that it at least aids racism. It pretends race and racism is not a problem or does not exist when statistics clearly show otherwise; black men account for roughly 6.5% of the prison population in the United States, but make up approximately around 40.2% of any given prison. Colorblindness is merely a way to bury the racial problem in this country and pretend everything is fine.
It serves no other purpose than to blind individuals to the continued reality of racism, therefore facilitating its perpetuation. White people are unlikely to experience disadvantages rooted in their race. This is a privilege that enables them to be able to ignore racism (structural and societal) in everyday American life, justify the current social order, and feel more comfortable with their relatively privileged standing in society. It creates a society for minorities that denies their negative racial experiences, rejects their cultural heritage, and invalidates their unique perspectives. This perpetuates the racial order and lends itself to legalizing racism, i.e., the structural. Colorblindness operates off the idea that “race does not matter because we are all equal.” As this is not the way things are, the notion of colorblindness and the ideology behind it are an
Critical Race Theory emerged in the 1970’s, founded by prominent lawyers and advocates who were frustrated with the stagnant racial advances seen in the 1960’s. CRT seeks to “investigate the relationship between race, racism, and power, particularly as it relates to law.” CRT’s fundamental principles are:
1. Racism is individual, societal, and structural
2. Racism benefits whites both materially and psychologically
3. Races are socially constructed
4. Every race has their own, unique experience with race
5. New races can emerge
6. Minorities bring a new perspective when it comes to race and racism …show more content…
Colorblindness is the idea that disregarding race in society will promote racial harmony and end discrimination. The case can be made that colorblindness is a contemporary 21st-century form of racism, or that it at least aids racism. It pretends race and racism is not a problem or does not exist when statistics clearly show otherwise; black men account for roughly 6.5% of the prison population in the United States, but make up approximately around 40.2% of any given prison. Colorblindness is merely a way to bury the racial problem in this country and pretend everything is fine.
It serves no other purpose than to blind individuals to the continued reality of racism, therefore facilitating its perpetuation. White people are unlikely to experience disadvantages rooted in their race. This is a privilege that enables them to be able to ignore racism (structural and societal) in everyday American life, justify the current social order, and feel more comfortable with their relatively privileged standing in society. It creates a society for minorities that denies their negative racial experiences, rejects their cultural heritage, and invalidates their unique perspectives. This perpetuates the racial order and lends itself to legalizing racism, i.e., the structural. Colorblindness operates off the idea that “race does not matter because we are all equal.” As this is not the way things are, the notion of colorblindness and the ideology behind it are an