Color Blindness
Colour-blindness refers to the insistence that one does not see skin colour or differences between people, and the belief that everyone has the same opportunities. This outlook prevents us from recognising the historical roots of racial inequality and from seeing how inequalities based on ethnic origin continue to persist in our societies.
Colour-blindness is part of the complex network that sustains systemic racism. Critical scholars argue that it functions to obscure the historical and structural foundations of racial inequality and to deny the ongoing effects of racism in contemporary societies (Bonilla-Silva,2018).
When people say, “I don’t see colour”, what they actually mean is, “I don’t see my own skin colour” – which places belief in white superiority at the centre. In addition, such claims dismiss the lived realities and experiences of racial discrimination based on skin colour and thereby delegitimise accounts of racism and inequality.
The following links give an overview on the topic of color blindness:
Colorblind: ReThinking Race