Both discussions blind policy makers to the true scale of the shale revolution.
And individual European countries have followed a rather blind policy of cuts to aid and assistance to developing nations, of pay-to-go schemes for resident migrant workers and of push-backs of migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean, towards Libya.
As another way to avoid the trade-off between race-blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race-neutral "class-based" admission policies--targeted at low-income and disadvantaged youth ( 9- 11).
Moreover, we know that so-called color-blind policies yield in negatively disparate treatment for minority groups.
Minorities, having previously argued for color-blind treatment, come to oppose those putatively color-blind policies which effectively disadvantage them.
Unless preexisting inequities are corrected or otherwise taken into account, colour-blind policies do not correct racial injustice – they reinforce it".
The seven other Ivy institutions, and several dozen other selective private colleges, have had need-blind policies for decades, but Brown had long maintained that it did not have the resources to follow suit.
The distinction between blindness and neutrality becomes clear when one considers that often a choice must be made between alternative race-blind policies, some of which ameliorate and others that exacerbate the social disadvantage of blacks.
While a race-blind public policy explicitly intended to harm blacks would never be acceptable, race-blind policies adopted for the purpose of reducing racial inequality are commonplace and well accepted.
In such circumstances, a strong argument can be made for focussing on race-blind policies that happen to benefit minorities disproportionately, such as widening access to health care, protecting income-support programs, and trying to toughen up the federal gun laws.
He said that "the president looks forward to going to Africa" (how patronizing can you be?) and wants "to double funding for historically black colleges and universities" (weren't the Republicans for color-blind policies rather than a politically correct form of de facto segregation?).
