The concept of a colorblind approach ignores the existence of historical context. One might as well take a disability-blind approach to whether buildings need wheelchair ramps.
People today are generally not limited by the historical context from which they come. Your parents' individual personalities and ability to raise you does matter, but broader historical context matters very little, unless we try to make it so and that generally just causes conflict.
People in wheelchairs are on the other hand affected by the presence or absence of wheelchair ramps.
Dude, go visit the Pine Ridge Reservation and then come back here and say "prople today are generally not limited by the historical context from which they come.
Why does that article not address the most dominant cause of the wealth gap, which is broken homes and blacks dropping out of school, not going to college etc?
That's an issue of personal choices more than anything else.
> Your parents' individual personalities and ability to raise you does matter, but broader historical context matters very little
Broader historical context plays part in what defines your parents' personalities and ability to raise children in the first place. You're trying so very hard to abstract it away in order to solve this problem but many of us know this won't work.
People in wheelchairs are on the other hand affected by the presence or absence of wheelchair ramps.