The privileged elite attacked the ideology of racial justice, without dealing with the true reality of apartheid. Today, color-blindness is a mask of status quo, rather than the hallmark of change. We won the fight to end legal apartheid. But in the process legal equality became the equivalent of de facto apartheid. Slight of hand.
White supremacy imposed by law is gone.
What remains is the reality of white power and white privilege. Affirmative action is no longer a remedy for past injustice. White male privilege is relatively unchanged. The power paradigm split, between white men and women. It is critical to recognize the gulf.