“There’s a certain type of person that enjoys self-flagellation,” says author Coleman Hughes, ahead of his Australian visit.
defended what he believes is the misunderstood and maligned concept of colour-blindness: the idea that we should treat people without regard to race in public policy and our personal lives.to pre-approve all local, state and federal public policies; investigate private racist policies; monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas; and discipline recalcitrant policymakers and officials); andHughes’ speech drew strong applause and some attendees gave a standing ovation.
To be clear, Hughes does not deny the many manifestations of racism in America – nor the urgent need to address them – including higher rates of poverty, police brutality and a punitive criminal justice system.“It’s perfectly legitimate and wise to pay reparations to living victims of unjust government policy,” says Hughes, who is of African-American and Puerto Rican descent. “But I draw a sharp distinction between that and relitigating events that happened 150 years ago.
And he is angered by those he accuses of misrepresenting colour-blindness as a conservative idea, or who selectively quote Martin Luther King jnr’s support ofwho suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws without noting that Dr King also declared: “The long journey ahead requires that we emphasise the needs of all America’s poor, for there is no way merely to find work, or adequate housing, or quality-integrated schools for Negroes alone.
Having come of age in a liberal enclave in the late 2000s and 2010s, Hughes is intimately familiar with the anti-racism tropes once confined to academia: that punctuality is a white supremacist notion, racism alone explains unequal outcomes, and a white person must never query any aspect of a black person’s “lived experience”.’ becomes a trump card that absolves you of the need to actually argue your point of view,” he says. “If you offer people an argumentative shortcut, many will take it.
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