"color blind" is not where we are and trying to set that as the goal right now is causing problems. People do have different experiences in the world because of

"color blind" is not where we are and trying to set that as the goal right now is causing problems. People do have different experiences in the world because of their races and pretending the races don't exist makes you blind to those effects. And 100 years of what now? A black man was lynched in my home town during my lifetime. My father was well into adulthood when desegregation began. I think you're gonna have to start the clock a little more recently. This stuff is still living memory, the effects of them linger tangibly in people's lives today. Ignoring race in data collection is a form of denial of it frankly.