America must be a colorblind society or it won't be America.

There will still be a country that borders Canada and Mexico and sits between two oceans,

but it won't be the nation envisioned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

Or Frederick Douglass in his what to the slave is the 4th of July oration, or Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address, or Reverend Martin Luther King

Jr. in his I Have a Dream Speech.

Until recently, every school child knew what it meant to be colorblind, but that's no

longer true, so I'll explain it. To be colorblind is to be guided by the belief

that immutable traits such as race tell you nothing important about a person.

The color of your skin is as meaningless as the color of your eyes.

What matters are your actions?

No one said it better than Reverend King.

I have a dream that my four little children

will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged

by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King said those words in 1963.

By the time Barack Obama became president in 2009, King's Dream had been effectively realized.

Yes, there were still individual racists, but racism was dead, universally discredited.

No one who espoused overtly racist views was taken seriously in America.

And then they were.

Why and how this reversal took place is complex of course. But if we were to ascribe it to one recent

event, it would be the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a black man, died while in

police custody in May 2020. On the heels of Floyd's death, issues of race preoccupied the nation.

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