Explain the difficulties experienced on many college campuses when attempting to have productive conversations and debates about racism.

The United States has a long and tragic history of racism that continues to hold strong today. Discuss the status of contemporary racism. Using this current state as a lens, examine the Black Lives Matter movement and other recent efforts to combat the various manifestations of racism. Does color-blind racism, for example, help to explain the difficulties experienced on many college campuses when attempting to have productive conversations and debates about racism?