Individualists frame past pro-white discrimination as symmetrical with current pro-black policy

Evidence

But that was what the writers of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were largely asking the Negro to do. And when the Negro lost the dashes and the racial disparities persisted, racists could blame the supposed slowness of the Negro, not the head starts of accumulated White privilege. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 973 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Respectable segregationists framed exclusion of blacks as a symmetry of individual choice — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 372; Modern conservatism abandoned explicit white supremacy for color-blind individualism — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 299; White racial ideology supports formal equality while opposing burdensome change — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3436 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neutralizing past discrimination while barring future discrimination preserves accumulated White advantage. #complicates (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 973