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<blockquote data-quote="faulkton" data-source="post: 2889224" data-attributes="member: 561910"><p>Consciously or, more often, unconsciously, many white Americans today share a common perspectives and identity, particularly with respect to racial issues such as affirmative action, busing, minority scholarships, or interpretations of race-related events in the news such as the OJ Simpson trials. An important part of this process is so-called race blindness, in which the denial of racial differences is used to deny the reality of racial inequality. Through such denial, whites are able to create a rationalization that the system is fair and that reform is not needed. Many whites believe this rationalization because they do not personally have the experience of being excluded and discriminated against, so they assume that the experiences of Blacks, Latinos, and others are the same as their own. However, by affirming the fairness of the system an this denying a need for reform, whites continue to receive the racial privileges that result from systematic racial inequality.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="faulkton, post: 2889224, member: 561910"] Consciously or, more often, unconsciously, many white Americans today share a common perspectives and identity, particularly with respect to racial issues such as affirmative action, busing, minority scholarships, or interpretations of race-related events in the news such as the OJ Simpson trials. An important part of this process is so-called race blindness, in which the denial of racial differences is used to deny the reality of racial inequality. Through such denial, whites are able to create a rationalization that the system is fair and that reform is not needed. Many whites believe this rationalization because they do not personally have the experience of being excluded and discriminated against, so they assume that the experiences of Blacks, Latinos, and others are the same as their own. However, by affirming the fairness of the system an this denying a need for reform, whites continue to receive the racial privileges that result from systematic racial inequality. [/QUOTE]

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