Willful blindness to racial devastation protects America’s self-image as moral

Evidence

Our segregated lives and our deep fears keep the problems of black folk from coming into full view. And even while hidden, the devastation spreads like cancer. This is the way we deal with race matters in this country: willful blindness. Any other approach threatens our national sense of morality. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 68

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that seeing race clearly threatens national morality captures a deep structural paradox worth sitting with.