The black middle class tired of having its success attributed to preference rather than hard work, supports the elimination of affirmative action in poll after poll. It's the fair thing to do. This is the race card, dealt from the bottom of the deck. The promise of a color blind future, caused us to take our eyes off the prize. We failed to see how the words that, promised liberation, led right back to imprisonment in second class citizenship and poverty for the poor, and alienation from the culture for the middle class.
Color blindness is a divisive code.
It fits our egalitarian beliefs. It feels good to say. It fits intellectually, and morally. But it doesn't solve the dilemma that everybody knows is a truism - this is still a racist society. The new racism is covert and virulent.