Color-blind rhetoric shifted blame for disparities onto Black culture

Evidence

By the century’s end, the term “color-blind” was often being used by politicians and thinkers to describe the correct way to think about race, since so much progress had been achieved and apparently all Americans were already being treated equally. “Color-blind” white people were telling Black Americans to stop playing “the race card.” Black cultures and behaviors were once again being blamed for racial disparities and inequity, while anti-Black racism was exonerated on the altar of racial progress. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1290

Categorization

• QUESTION: The phrase ‘once again’ implies a historical precedent for blaming Black culture — worth chasing which earlier eras did the same.
• XREF: connects to: Post-civil-rights African American mobilization declined as shared enemy attribution diluted to self-blame. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 4430; Understanding material disparities requires tracing historical inferiorizing discourses — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1240