colorblind

Scientific  

/ kŭl′ər-blīnd′ /

1. Unable to distinguish certain colors. Humans who are colorblind usually cannot distinguish red from green. Many animals, including cats and dogs, are colorblind and unable to distinguish more than a few colors.

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Example Sentences

Racially colorblind highway construction shouldn’t be too much to ask in a country that guarantees equal protection of the laws.

From The Wall Street Journal

Back in 1896, Harlan wrote: “The Constitution is colorblind.”

From Los Angeles Times

Other movers and shakers in the Martian movement included French astronomer and philosopher Camille Flammarion, who brought missionary zeal to the task of convincing the world of extraterrestrial life; and Giovanni Schiaparelli, the colorblind Italian astronomer who observed “an abundance of narrow streaks” on Mars “that appeared to connect the seas one to another.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Constitution would now be “colorblind.”

From Slate

With “The New Jim Crow,” Michelle Alexander made legible to the public the deep and enduring systems of anti-Blackness that were so powerfully obscured during the so-called colorblind era.

From Los Angeles Times