Colorblind ideology reframes race consciousness itself as the racism to be ended.

Evidence

Those advocating acolorblind view of race assert that the goals of the civil rights movement have been substantially achieved, that overt forms of racial discrimination are athing of the past, and that the United States is in the midst of a successful transition toa “post-racial” society. From a colorblind standpoint, any hints of race consciousness are tainted by racism. Thus it is suggested that the most effective antiracist gesture, policy, or practice is simply to ignore race (Skrentny 1996; Connerly 2007). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 241

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out the defining inversion of colorblindness: antiracism becomes the suppression of any race-conscious talk whatsoever.
• XREF: connects to: Affirmative action was recast as the truest form of racism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1762; Denouncing race itself becomes the new racism’s containment tactic. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1798; Color-blind ideology enshrined suburban autonomy and white racial innocence as national doctrine. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 113