We've tried this sort of thing before. Trying to be "race blind" does not result in a post-racism world, it casts a pall on the discourse that makes racism hard

We've tried this sort of thing before. Trying to be "race blind" does not result in a post-racism world, it casts a pall on the discourse that makes racism harder to acknowledge and address. Anytime you need to discuss it you have to run a gambit of people arguing that acknowledging issues related to race is the "real" racism. Trying to be "gender blind" will result in much the same. The world is complex; we need to account for that complexity, not ignore it.