In Defense of the Color-Blind Principle
3/16/24
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from National Review,
2/24/24:
wo recent major-press books — Andre Archie’s The Virtue of Color-Blindness and Coleman Hughes’s The End of Race Politics — make a case that is considered quite bold today, would have been wildly controversial in 1953, and would have been thought a reiteration of the obvious during most years in between. Specifically, both texts argue for the virtue of racial color-blindness, and for not acting as a bigot in any particular direction.
To both Archie and Hughes, “color-blindness” means pretty much what it meant to Martin Luther King Jr. — at least in public — and what it would have meant …
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