Euardo Bonilla-Silva's Racism Without Racists

Have you ever heard of the term "Color-Blind"? In Euardo Bonilla-Silva 's book Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and Racial Inequality in America, he says there are four central frames of color-blind racism, "abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, and minimization of racism (350)." All of these frames have only replaced the Jim Crow laws, the overtdiscrimination, and in my opinion made the majority extremely ignorant. Today I will go into great detail on two of Bonilla-Silva 's central frames, abstract liberalism and naturalization by connect the other three readings from Manning Marable 's book, Let Nobody Turn Us Around. The authors purpose in all of these readings is to make clear that racism is still alive today.

According to Bonilla-Silva he says, "the word 'natural ' or the phrase "that 's the way it is ' is often interjected to normalize events or actions that could otherwise be interpreted as racially motivated (residential segregation) or racist (preference for whites as friends and partners) (351)." This is something that some people love to downplay because they can run to the phrase "it is what it is". For example, during Hurricane Katrina majority of the minority communities were the ones that could not afford to evacuate before the hurricane hit and were left with nothing. Many minorities were seen as "looters" because they were searching for food for their families. In the book Let Nobody Turn Us Around in the chapter about Hurricane Katrina it says, "We 're told we should be more 'neighborly. ' But nobody talked about being neighborly until after the people who could afford to leave... left (Marable, 624)." I thought this was extremeluy interesting because I can remember when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and watching the news showing African Americans stealing from grocery stores and looking for food. It was interesting because I only saw was African Americans doing this because of the way media portrays blacks in society. Everyone that wanted to judge the people that were going through this diaster had already left or have never dealt with this type of hurricane. When

This is something that is rare because Bill Cosby is black. Cosby said "With names like Shaniqua, Shaliqua, Mohammed, and all that crap and all of them are in jail.. What 's the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up (Marable, 618)." For someone to speak so cruely of a race because of the names they are given is pathetic. Cosby was so wrapped up in his role as a upper class black man who had all the resources needed to succeed in his show that he completely ignores those who do not have those priveleges. Bill Cosby is ignorant. It is safe to say that Cosby has never had to deal with any issues that would have allowed him to be in a situation of need because of the way that he feels about his own race. What Cosby does not address that Michael Eric Dyson makes evident is that Cosby is putting blacks in a box of being poor. Dyson said "Cosby 's mean-spirited characterizations of the black poor as licentious, sexually promiscious, materalistic, and wantonly irresponsible can be made of all classes in the nation (Marable, 619)." This is extremely important because what a lot of people do not understand is that all classes have their own issues, but since blacks are already seen as "bad" they get the worst allegations.

All in all, I believe that color-blind racism is alive and well today. Abstract liberalism simply makes it