From “Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race” by Willie Dwayne Francois III
Colorblindness uses an idea of our biological human sameness to overlook cultural and experiential differences and negate economic and political opportunities that differ due to race. To be colorblind is to deny the structure of society. White noise cues us to feign blindness to race and skin color and how they shape real life, This “covert” racism, whether associated with a religion or not, minimizes the historial longevity of racist social arrangements and engenders substitute reasons for the lack of social and economic parity between White and Black lives. It explains inequality using nonracial calculations. Colorblind racism promotes white noise in four ways, through the myths of (1) equal opportunities, (2) cultural assimilation, (3) social naturalism, and (4) naive romanticism.
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