January 16, 2025
“Color-blindness” is grounded in the understanding that an individual’s or a group’s racial membership should be irrelevant when choices are made, or attitudes formed. Instead, character should be understood as the root of individual choices and attitudes. As Martin Luther King Jr. famously says in his “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wants his children to live in a nation where they would be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.