The Pew Study: Black Pathology or the Legitimization of Mainstream Colorblindness? – Between The Lines

Whether or not the study substantiates black optimism fading, or black progress in regression, the state of Black America is really the state of some harsh racial realities in America – realities that Blacks see one way, Whites see another and everybody sees somewhere in-between. To ignore that Blacks are still disproportionately discriminated against, and to say the victim is victimizing himself, is to look at the situation through blinders. Where optimism once reflected the world through “rose-colored” glasses, reality, even pessimism, has framed this new world order through colorblind glasses. With the Pew Study, society, through its researchers and academicians, is preparing to validate colorblindness in the same ways slavery and segregation were validated. Now it’s up to the black community, the most conveniently studied population, not to co-sign the pathology.