{"id":30797,"date":"2013-05-03T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30797"},"modified":"2013-05-03T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T22:03:27","slug":"%e2%80%9ccolorblindness%e2%80%9d-overlooks-structural-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30797","title":{"rendered":"\u201cColorblindness\u201d Overlooks Structural Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\/colorblindness-overlooks-structural-inequality\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cColorblindness\u201d Overlooks Structural Inequality<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity<\/a><br \/>\n2013-04-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:robertchaoromero@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Chao Romero<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good morning.\u00a0 Thanks to all who have been tracking with our multi-part series on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_race_theory\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race Theory<\/a> and Christianity.\u00a0 It seems like we\u2019ve struck a nerve with this one, so I\u2019m excited to keep sharing ideas\u2014back and forth\u2014between us.<\/p>\n<p>Some very thoughtful comments came in last week from Paul, a teacher, pastor, and doctoral student at my old stomping grounds\u2014U.C. Berkeley.\u00a0\u00a0 He raised the important point that the colorblind approach to race ignores not only the cultural diversity which God Himself created, <em>but also the stubborn racism which continues to pervade U.S. socio-economic and political institutions.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 It is to this important point that we turn to this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Supporters of \u201ccolorblindness\u201d say that racism is behind us.<\/em>\u00a0 Sure, racism rears its ugly head once in a while in individual encounters between people, but, as a whole, it\u2019s a thing of the past.\u00a0 As evidence they say, \u201csee, we elected a black, Kenyan president&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\/colorblindness-overlooks-structural-inequality\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cColorblindness\u201d Overlooks Structural Inequality Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.\u00a0 Thanks to all who have been tracking with our multi-part series on Critical Race Theory and Christianity.\u00a0 It seems like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,820,394,20],"tags":[13291,9291,1735,9290],"class_list":["post-30797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jesus-for-revolutionaries","tag-robert-c-romero","tag-robert-chao-romero","tag-robert-romero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}