Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture: "The Virtue of Color-Blindness and the American Project" with Andre Archie

Though the term “color-blindness” has come under attack in recent years, the color-blind approach to race relations is superior to anti-racism and identity politics in every way. Color-blindness is grounded in the understanding that an individual’s or a group’s racial membership should be irrelevant when choices are made, or attitudes formed. Instead, character should be understood as the root of individual choices and attitudes. As Martin Luther King Jr. famously says in his “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wants his children to live in a nation where they would be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. This color-blind dream is deeply rooted in Western philosophy and should be restored as the American ideal.

The speaker will be participating in a book signing and selling following the end of the lecture for his book, The Virtue of Color Blindness (Regenery).