Author Calls for Return to Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass’ Vision of Colorblindness

Not a bad idea! Amen!

MLK in 1963: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character." (Source)

I wrote some critical blog posts about MLK here, here, and here.

"Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were both dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, Andre Archie says, but their work is being undermined. 

“When I say colorblind, it’s not naive at all,” says Archie, an author and professor at Colorado State University. “It speaks to a tradition that we find with MLK, with Frederick Douglass, with the Founders, right, in principle. We also find it in the Western philosophical tradition; so, my goal is to rehabilitate that.”  ..."

Returning to MLK's Vision of a Colorblind America