In S Africa the minority race is the white European descendants
The oppressed population in S Africa has always dramatically outnumbered in power minority
Entirely different dynamic than the USA which makes the comparison questionable
In the US history shows us the "color blind principle" existed in writing but not in practice.
So what has the majority race in America been adhering to?
Of course whites may fear that...but that can't justify not adhering to the constitution or deciding to delay someone's civil rights because of that unrealized fear
Agree 100%
I edited my first post. I meant prior minority.
The comparison, which is really the only we have historically and raised by Bama and not myself, specifically, is not perfect as, to your point, it is not a 90% black population (we are only at 13% or so, and will be diluted by hispanic migration) it is multi-cultural.
On Color Blind, one can argue, very successfully (Jon Meacham, a long time classmate of mine) did that really we cannot speak of a true color blind society until 1965. It is why CRT (regardless of where and how it should be taught) has intellectual resonance outside of Marxist schools of thought.
Post 1965, we have clearly moved there and in many areas are very successful. Profoundly so. Obama (for whatever you thought of him) was elected with a majority white population. Take his skin color and name off and just listen to him and he is indistinguishable from any other very well educated center-left liberal. That is a success (again, regardless of what you think of specific policies).
Is the concern legitimate? Of course it is. We have not seen a peaceful, color-blind transition of power from a single to a multi-racial society. How likely is it to take root? If it does, how will it emerge, that is for discussion and hopefully good willed action.
p.s. my issue with CRT, is that I have never thought about race so much until May of 2020. I heard the N word when I went to college in the South, but never past 1992. The challenge in CRT is not in the historical look back, but rather in the teaching and then the implementation of the "E" of DEI.
As an example, there are large firms who, during hiring freezes, will ONLY hire those under the DEI cohort. For some firms that may mean women (of all colors), native blacks, native americans plus one additional. The first three, especially the last two, make sense.
The fourth is hispanics.
Why hispanics is the question then. What makes their condition unique? They should be free from racism, of course, but why special dispensation? Spanish and Portugese started the trans-contiental slave trade. CRT is what leads to these kind of outcomes that, as noted on the right, divide and create concern and far worse potential outcomes.
