Meritocracy
According to George J. Sefa Dei, meritocracy is based on the idea that America is a merit based society where a persons worth and opportunities are solely based on individual effort and abilities. Laissez-faire racism supports the idea of rugged individualism and dismisses oppression on the basis of racial discrimination as attitudinally based and generally questionable.
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