In contrast to the models of color-blindness and multiculturalism, the racial democracy ideal envisions an "ideal america" as: a place where people’s racial and ethnic differences are respected but that respect is secondary to the respect given to each person’s individual accomplishments and abilities to succeed in societya place where people don’t need to acknowledge race and ethnicity because the ideals of race equality finally match the reality of the societya place where people are liberated beyond the structural restraints of the legacies associated with their racial and ethnic groups through a systematic redress of racial injusticesa place where empathy, mutuality, and common respect between people has created a pattern of cultural respect, where all groups are given equal social merit