White racism has always been veiled by “civil” culture. The first necessity is to interpret society’s way of life with high ideals. More than just nice, it is civil, fair, equal, and just. In our day, the colorblind rhetoric is a mutated form of this approach. Notice that it is primarily white conservative Americans, and decisively not African Americans, who praise colorblindness as our path toward a better future. Dominant culture has an advantage in disseminating its ideas and claims, and it has done a masterful job at defining how it wants to be interpreted.
