Promoting People of Color in the Progressive Blogosphere

Racism, as both white supremacist ideology and institutionalized
arrangement, remains merely transformed with its' systemic foundations
intact. Segregation in housing and education persists at levels beyond that
noted in 1954 in Brown, racial wealth gaps grow, and racial disparities in
criminal justice proliferate at a pace that has led to the label "The New Jim
Crow“……
This denial of The Dream is doubly bitter, for not only does systemic racism
persist indeed with ever widening racial gaps, but King's own words have
been subverted to construct the denial. "They will not be judged by the color
of their skin but by the content of their character," is not yet reality but
instead now the rallying cry for those who would deny the persistence of
racism in any and all of its' manifestations. These words have been
expropriated to legitimate the newest racist paradigm - "color-blindness".
Color-blind racism" explains contemporary racial inequality as the outcome
of nonracial dynamics and allows whites to equate racism with prejudice,
ignoring the institutionalized and systemic racial structures that sustain and
reproduce white racial privilege.