Does the Obama Election Mark the Beginning of a Post-racial America?
No, says Shelly Tochluk, author of Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and faculty member at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles. Racism is still with us, she affirms. Whites must recognize “that we don’t want to be racist, unconscious to how race impacts our lives, or mired in a guilt complex,” Tochluk says in a copyrighted interview in the Feb. 4 (2009) issue of Velocity, a community-based publication. “We can then turn out attention to developing a way of being white that is positive, energizing and based upon an active attempt to dismantle racism, privilege and oppression. To do this, we start by becoming better witnesses to racial injustice. If we can’t see it, we can’t do anything about it. So, a first step is to become more conscious of how racism lingers within ourselves, our families and our communities.”
What is the problem with white people saying they are colorblind? Many white people say they are colorblind hoping to convey a message that they ar not prejudiced, are against racism and that they don’t make judgments based on color. But what they are also saying is that they believe a person’s ethnicity is meaningless. They are saying that if race doesn’t matter to them as white people, then it should not matter to a person of color either. This does two things: (1) It denies the fact that being a person of color in the U.S. can invite a radically different experience than being white. (2) It also stops white people from looking deeper within to find out how we unconsciously benefit from privilege or allow subtle racism to continue.
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