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
Famous quotes containing the words color, blindness, united and/or states:
“Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
Again again with its pointless sound
When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“For the “superior morality” of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this “superior morality” is properly rather an “inferior criminality” produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)