When did the left abandon MLK?

Critical race theory, now ascendant in San Jose City Council Rules Committee meetings and other progressive institutions, rejects the colorblind sensibilities that drove the 20th century civil rights movement. In fact, even to say “colorblind” is verboten. Karl Zinsmeister mourns the passing of a grand vision in City Journal.

The color-transcending idealism of Martin Luther King, Jr. has given way to an intense race consciousness, elaborate mechanisms of protection to make people feel “safe,” and government interventions that categorize people by skin tone.  Relentless new concepts of collective guilt insist that “white identity is inherently racist,” as celebrated diversity trainer Robert DiAngelo puts it, and that “white people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.” The only acceptable approach is to admit one’s deep “implicit racism and the nation’s “system racism” leading to ‘white deference.”

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