Color-blind rhetoric reframes discrimination claims as fabricated race-card plays.

Evidence

Into 2006, the producers of racist ideas were arguing that the charges of widespread discrimination in New Orleans, and in the United States, were fabricated or overblown. The United States was color blind, and the Black people charging discrimination were lying—they were playing their race cards. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1204

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The post-Katrina ‘race card’ inversion is a live test case for the reader’s goal: does the accusation precede or follow the policy harm? Here the accusation (of playing the race card) follows the federal failure — consistent with Kendi’s ordering.
• XREF: connects to: Lies about race and labor are communicated in ways optimized for belief; Coded anti-public rhetoric can express racial fears without race words — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 582; Color blindness claims deny systematic racism while erasing cultural difference. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1261 (+2 more)