Weekly Poll: Do We Really Want a Color-Blind America?

Weekly Poll: Do We Really Want a Color-Blind America?

Color-blind America?  It sounds great, but do we Americans really want to give up our own self-interests?  Do we want to want to subjugate our needs, our families’ needs, our special interests to some ‘greater’ (or at least larger) good?  And should we?

 

 

This week, when the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) meets in Philadelphia, it’s sure to come up that MSNBC is about to hand its coveted prime time 6 PM time slot to the Rev. Al Sharpton—a “non-journalist celebrity” as he has been called by any number of more experienced, capable black journalists.

 

 

And what about the ongoing criticism that President Obama avoids weighing in on such critical issues as the soaring rate of black unemployment and the widening wealth gap between blacks and whites?  Does he get a pass with, “I am the President of all Americans”?  By the way, the President sent a dozen reps to the NABJ meeting.

 

 

On the flip side, there will be nothing but kudos for Mayor Bloomberg , who has pledged both his own and New York City’s funds to help Black and Latino youth.  And so it should be.  a city program targeting young Black and Latino males

 

 

Can we have it both ways?  What do you think?  Do we really want a color-blind America?

 

 

 YES ______                          NO _____