Neutralizing past discrimination while barring future discrimination preserves accumulated White advantage.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends Kendi’s core causal inversion for this book’s reading purpose; connects to Coleman/Hanushek debates about equity vs. equality vs. outcome-based policy. — connects to: Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; Color-blind policy would perpetuate racial segregation without affirmative dismantling — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 342