A middle-aged resident of the neighborhood enters the bank's lobby, inserts her bank card into the machine, and requests two hundred dollars. As she waits for her transaction to be processed, the woman suddenly notices a figure moving directly toward the lobby from across the street, focusing her are legall y relevant , bu t stil l reject s thei r acceptability, " som e will say, "then he must be willing to sacrifice logical consistenc y on th e alta r o f politica l correctness. " Thi s objectio n reflect s a specious but increasingl y popula r attac k o n antidiscriminatio n blindness. Inculcatio n i n color-blin d orthodox y i s s o fir m an d pervasive i n thi s country , however , tha t man y reader s initiall y may nee d consciousl y t o suspen d disbelie f i n approachin g thi s thesis. But I will build my argumen t fo r race-consciousnes s i n social decision making o n hard empirica l proof, not faith . A ne w number s racket-discriminatio n b y mathematics - Racism on Stilt sPerhaps th e graves t threa t toda y t o progress towar d racia l justice come s fro m th e right-win g ideologue s ben t o n convincin g White peopl e o f goo d fait h tha t negativ e stereotype s abou t Blacks are justified. Trotting out discredited studies, unscientifi c experiments, an d cooke d statistics , thes e pundit s tr y t o prov e that Blacks are inherently les s intelligent and more violent tha n Whites. The unmistakable implication o f these "proofs'' of Black inferiority i s that disparities between Black s and Whites in education and employment must be blamed on Blacks' own inferio r genes, not o n past an d present discrimination . A further implication is that Whites need not resist the influence o f some pro-Pittsburgh suburb ] ? I think you go t my point .
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