- Color-blindness was once considered a progressive attitude, but is now seen as backwards, and even racist.
- In reality, color-blindness is neither racist nor backwards; it is the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race in our public policy and personal lives.
- Color-blindness has deep roots in the fight against slavery and segregation, and was embraced by the Civil Rights Movement.
- Modern activists and intellectuals have twisted the history of color-blindness to delegitimize it, but this is a false history.
- Color-blindness is the best way to govern a multiracial democracy and to fight racism, and abandoning it would be a mistake.
Click HERE for original. Published December 20, 2022
