Public preference for colorblindness must be converted into political action to defeat racial collectivism.

Evidence

To avoid this fate, Americans of all racial backgrounds must work together to defeat this ideology, down to its roots. Despite the success of critical race theory in prestige institutions, American voters still prefer individualism, colorblindness and equal protection under the law. The challenge is to turn this public preference into public action. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 442

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colorblind ideology reframes race consciousness itself as the racism to be ended. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 241; Color-blind policy would perpetuate racial segregation without affirmative dismantling — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 342; Government action can reshape citizens’ racial habits and attitudes. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 509 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Government action can reshape citizens’ racial habits and attitudes. #corroborates (1.00) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 509
• Colorblind ideology works only because it partly reflects real post-civil-rights gains #corroborates (1.00) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 245
• Colorblindness has become the hegemonic racial common sense in 21st-century America. #corroborates (1.00) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 241
• Colorblindness ideology rearticulated civil rights gains into a new racism #corroborates (1.00) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 192
• Racial identity as a sign must give way to positional, political subjectivities #corroborates (1.00)
• Competing racial projects either uphold or challenge the racial order. #corroborates (1.00) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 129
• Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power #corroborates (1.00) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86
• A strategic political identity can unite people across skin-color differences #complicates (0.95) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 244
• Colorblind equal treatment perpetuates rather than ends racial hierarchy #corroborates (0.95) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1072
• Colorblind ideology reframes race consciousness itself as the racism to be ended. #expands (0.90) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 241
• Color-blind policy would perpetuate racial segregation without affirmative dismantling #contradicts (0.85) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 342
• Colorblind ideology presents the ability to forget race as progress. #expands (0.85) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 15
• Anti-racist gains that cannot be reversed must instead be rearticulated by opponents. #complicates (0.85) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 187
• Colorblind formalism rescued racism when movements threatened its material order. #contradicts (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 128
• Believing race should end can substitute for fighting racism itself #contradicts (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 50