The Architecture

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]2 weeks ago, [music] I posted an essay about color blindness.

[00:00:04]Someone left a comment.

[00:00:06]Instagram [music] hid it, but I'm showing it to you anyway.

[00:00:12]That comment didn't refute my essay. It proved it.

[00:00:17]Author Robin DiAngelo has a name for this, white fragility.

[00:00:22]When pointing out racism becomes the racist act, when the person naming the harm gets accused of causing it, that's not a rebuttal.

[00:00:33]That's the architecture.

[00:00:35]And it's not just in the comment sections. Less than a month ago, a group called the American Alliance for Equal Rights filed a federal lawsuit against a black student scholarship fund, using a law written after the Civil War to protect black people.

[00:00:53]And that And the lawsuit seeks to block black students from receiving the scholarships.

[00:00:59]In 2023, the Supreme Court eliminated race-conscious college admissions. Color blind, they called it. Look at the comment.

[00:01:09]The lawsuit.

[00:01:11]The court decisions. Same move, different scale.