Color Blindness (race) In The United States
Color blindness (sometimes spelled colour-blindness; also called race blindness) is a sociological term referring to the disregard of racial characteristics when selecting which individuals will participate in some activity or receive some service.
As described by Chief Justice Roberts,"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race"
Put into practice, color-blind operations use no racial data or profiling and make no classifications, categorizations, or distinctions based upon race. An example of this would be a college processing admissions without regard to or knowledge of the racial characteristics of applicants.
In the 1960s landmark civil rights legislation's goal was to remove racial discrimination and so establish a race-blind standard. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, that the hope was that people would be judged by "the content of their character" rather than "the color of their skins".
This article deals with the United States.
The term is sometimes also used in a non-political sense; for example, love is often described as colorblind.
Read more about Color Blindness (race) In The United States: Support of Color Blindness, Criticism of Color Blindness
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv’n,
That each may fill the circle mark’d by Heav’n:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
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—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“I believe the citizens of Marion County and the United States want to have judges who have feelings and who are human beings.”
—Paula Lopossa, U.S. judge. As quoted in the New York Times, p. B9 (May 21, 1993)