Color-blind standards & decision-procedures also encode racial preferences.

Given the fact that White people are MUCH less likely to see "race" as a significant aspect of their identity or personal formation when compared to, especially, African Americans (& for good reason) 1/

2/ then institutions which downplay or censor race-consciousness tend to deselect for people of color. In other words, color-blind institutions simply normalize dominant White cultures and self-identities as race "neutral" and treat those who inescapably connect socially applied

3/ racial categories with self-identity and personal history and story are treated as aberrant, illicitly race-conscious. And if the latter choose, therefore, to self-censor in such institutional environments, they also are left unable to be known authentically, to be able to

4/ tell their own story, to offer what they believe to be unique perspectives, and to find authentic community. They are, to be frank, discriminated against by a racial preference. And the racial preference arises from ignoring history, context, and social difference.

5/5 Hence, both on the enforcement end of color-blindness and at the censored end of color-blindness, very clear racial preferences are built in, no matter the intention.