Trayvon Martin’s murder vanquished the myth of a postracial America.

Evidence

The election of President Obama in 2008 signaled for millions that the United States was approaching, or had reached, a new era where racism was a relic of the past. Advocates of this mythic worldview, and the attendant ideology of colorblindness, resisted the salience of race and opposed the need for affirmative action to rehabilitate past and present inequity, arguing that any assertions of race or racism were moot. The murder of Trayvon Martin, and the string of deaths of unarmed black men and women killed in the months and years after Martin’s death, vanquished the fiction that the United States was postracial. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 425

Categorization

• XREF: Colorblindness ideology connects to the reader’s earlier material on how erasure operates — parallels Ernst’s psychological mechanisms. — connects to: The killing of Trayvon Martin stems from institutionalized racism, not an aberration. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 500
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 425

Broader Connections

• The killing of Trayvon Martin stems from institutionalized racism, not an aberration. #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 500