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The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

Today I'm going to be reading a substack post I made entitled, Actually, Colorblindness isn't

racist, which I also published in the free press, where I'm now contributing writer.

You can subscribe to my substack at colemanhues.substack.com. Here we go. In a few months,

the Supreme Court will strike down or reaffirm race-based affirmative action

in college admissions.

The anticipation surrounding the court's decision, in two separate cases, pitting students

for fair admissions against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, has reignited the

long-running national debate over colorblindness.

The question is, should universities be permitted to discriminate on the basis of race?

Should they be permitted to see race?

Not seeing race is the surest way these days to signal that you aren't on the right side of this divide.

Indeed, the term colorblindness

has become anathema to right-think. If you live in elite institutions, I'm talking universities,

corporate America, the mainstream media. The quickest way to demonstrate that you just don't get it

is to say, I don't see color, or I was taught to treat everyone the same.

Once considered a progressive attitude, colorblindness is now seen as backwards, a cheap

surrender in the face of racism at best, or a cover for deeply held racist beliefs at worse.

But colorblindness is neither racist nor backwards. Properly

understood, it's the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race,

in our personal lives, and in our public policy. Though it has roots in the Enlightenment,

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