Within Critical Race Theory, color blindness only strengthens racism as something that goes unnoticed and untalked about in every day operations, making it impossible to address racial harms other than those so flagrant that everyone immediately recognizes them as racism, but is then dismissed as abnormal or something of the past.

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The view of racism as something ordinary asserts that racism is something we all interact with in our common, everyday life experiences. While there are glaring examples of racial discrimination that catch our attention, there are many more common examples of racism that go unnoticed every day. 

Racism as something ordinary

Color blindness is the view or standard that everyone should or is being treated uniformly, regardless of differences in race. 

Color blindness (racial)

Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (2012). Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2nd ed.). NYU Press.

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