The concept of racial color-blindness relates to creating an ideal society where racial classification does not limit an individual's opportunities, or where there is complete racial equality (Tran " Paterson, 2015). The reason why most sociologists find the concept of racial color-blindness unhealthy for American society is because they believe that the mechanisms that give-forth to racial inequality have become more obscure and covert than they were during the legal and open segregation era. According to sociologists, the explicit racism language has paved the way for a discourse of racial color-blindness. Sociologists also believe that the people's refusal to be cautious about race makes them ignore or disregard the manifestations of persistent racial discrimination, which is unhealthy for the American society (Tran " Paterson, 2015).
In my view, racial issues will not disappear even if people stopped acknowledging them. That is because, for the first half of the Twentieth century, it was entirely legal to deny racial minorities access to various rights, such as voting and housing among others, based explicitly on their race. The civil-rights reforms later rendered such practices illegal and today's laws prohibit various practices that previously facilitated racial inequality, such as segregation, redlining, or open refusal to rent a house to Black Americans (Tran " Paterson, 2015). However, despite all such changes to the American constitution, racial discrimination persists in the American society, operating through a combination of political, economic, social, and institutional practices.
Additionally, it is no longer socially allowed to identify oneself as racist in most parts of the United States. Instead, most Americans purport not to acknowledge race. However, by disregarding the existence of race, most Americans end up averting their eyes from seeing how other people engage in practices that encourage racial discrimination, thereby increasing racial issues by disadvantaging racial minorities in various life aspects.
References
Tran, N., " Paterson, S. (2015). “American” as a Proxy for “Whiteness”: Racial Color-Blindness in Everyday Life. Women " Therapy, 38(3-4), 341-355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2015.1059216
