Ironically, dominant society will proclaim colorblindness at one moment and then the next moment will have no problem calling out “black–on–black violence” instead of just seeing it as human–on–human violence. When something is believed to be problematic in African American communities, colorblind rhetoric disappears, and blackness is quickly named without reserve. I have never heard anyone talk about the problem of “white–on–white violence” even though, according to statistics, this type of violence occurs at very similar rates as that of black–on–black violence.
