Race. Its a four letter word but hold so much meaning, struggle and animosity to it. It's a topic on conversation on everyone's minds conscious or unconscious. Each an every day we encounter racism in one form or another. If this was 1963 it would be clear as day who was racist to whom, but as time progresses the ways some are racist have become more covert as the years pass. Lately there has been this idea of "Color-blind Racism"; this is the idea that whites are no longer looking at the color of one's skin to judge them, but at their character, so the idea that "you didn't get that job because you are black" turn into "you didn't get that job because you are lazy and undetermined". This idea that has been adopted in recent years may have taken the sting out of blatant racism, but has pulled the wool over the eyes of those that are not looking hard enough.
In the first half of
Racism Without Racist by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva we learn what Color-Blind Racism is, the central frameworks of racism, how those are used in daily life to "not sound racist" as well as other tactics used to segregate whites and minorities and real stories by minorities who have experienced color-blind racism in one form or the other. All in all the first half, Bonilla-Silva opens our eyes to what we may have felt was going on but had no concrete proof until now.
http://sundial.csun.edu/2013/02/colorblind-ideology-a-new-form-of-racism/
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/04/racism-in-a-color-blind-society
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