All Star Blog Post

I chose my blog post titled “Decoys of Racism” mostly because I just honestly liked the tone and style of this post in particular. I like the diction I use throughout it. This is probably one of my shortest blogs from the course, but I think that the tone I use throughout it is heavily effective, which makes up for the length. Additionally, I liked that I brought current events into the discussion. To be honest, other than that, I’m not exactly sure what exactly about this piece it was that I liked, I honestly think I just like the way the tone makes me sound.

“Did the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s usher America into a new era of colorblindness, or did it simply generate formal norms of colorblindness that mask ongoing racial domination?”

I feel that far too often, when I hear people trying to prove their non-racist tendencies they retort saying, “I don’t see color.” I always found that to be ridiculous, because everyone sees color. The question is whether or not you make judgements based on the color you see. Much like saying “I am friends with POC”, the statement used in defense is so empty, and is meant to push the focus somewhere else. This article, pointed out how, far too often, when presented with racism, whatever level it may be at, it seems the first instinct of any white person is to point the blame or focus somewhere else. To try to calm the situation down, but never to fix it. As the question in the quote asks, was America really moving into a new era of not judging on color, or was it pushing into an era where it looks like something is being done, but nothing really is? Heartbreaking news came in the case of Breonna Taylor as one of the cops involved was finally indicted of a crime, but it was for shooting bullets into the neighbors homes, rather than for the murder of an unarmed woman. Once again, in the face of judgement for racist motives, the choice was made to look for a decoy, rather than look for a solution.