Here's my problem with the color-blind argument: I have never heard a colorblind activist explain how we deal with the concrete problem of "racial discrimination" if we accept the colorblind premise. As long as some people do not follow the color blind theory and still discriminate by race, how could these discriminatory actions be penalized in a society that doesn't officially recognize race? To use a concrete example, take me, I'm "black". Let's say that I go to a bank looking for financing and get turned down. I give the ideas from my business plan to a "white" friend of mine and he is able to secure financing, using essentially the same plan. In absence of a "race" construct, anti-dsicrimination remedies related to race are out the window. So, what's my recourse? Ditto for job discrimination, housing discrimination, and so on...

Could on of the colorblind activists on this piece explain how current anti-discrimination law could deal with discrimination in the absence of a race paradigm?

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