The Charter of Whites: Systemic Racism and Critical Race Equality in Canada

[Introduction]: "Systemic racism and colourblindness are intimately linked (though, because of the ableist connotation of colourblindness, I will call the latter race evasiveness, unless I am directly quoting another scholar). The former – systemic racism – refers to how intergenerational legacies and ongoing practices of oppression and dispossession translate into contemporary societal inequality. The latter – race evasiveness – refers to the belief that those legacies and practices should not be accounted for in our contemporary legal, political, and economic thought. Put plainly, systemic racism is an efect and race evasiveness is a cause. To be clear, reasonable people can disagree over how race should be accounted for in policy. But it is inconceivable to think that, without some such accounting, legacies and practices of racial subordination will simply expire. The staggering racial inequalities that persist in Canada – indeed, globally – are no accident. And their end – if ever – will be no accident, either."