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color blindness  

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  • The term color blindness expresses the ideal of a nonra-cial society wherein skin color is of no consequence for individual life chances or governmental policy. Central tenets of color blindness include nondiscrimination, due process, equality of opportunity, and equal protection of rights under the law. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Color Blindness]

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