This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's
troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to
ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and
economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.
But if the theory behind the Valuation - Informed Indexing model is on the mark, it is not
economic conditions that are causing our
troubles — it is the largely
ignored reality that we borrowed $ 12 trillion from future investors to pay for the bull markets of the late 1990s and that we now need to pay that money back.
But the fact that the Olympics are being staged in a developing country, «with all the social,
economic, health and environmental challenges that this entails» does not mean we should
ignore the
troubles.