Colorblind ideology presents the ability to forget race as progress.

Evidence

We are urged to see people as individuals only, not as persons or groups whose identities or social positions have been shaped and organized by race. After Obama’s January 27, 2010 State of the Union speech, MSNBC host Chris Matthews said of the President, “He is postracial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour” (Matthews 2010). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 15

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the colorblind/neoliberal linkage the authors flag in the intro; ties to the reader’s general critique of colorblind frames. — connects to: Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129