Colorblindness is a legal fiction that reflects and shows the authority of legal discourse because the courts are asserting that law is blind to race while living in a country where race plays a vital role in society. It is the law telling us to live and view the world in a certain way while disregarding the underlying racial oppressions that others face. Neil Gotanda argues that in not recognizing race it allows the courts to ignore the issues of subordination. More so, he states that if we were to use color-blind nonrecognition effectively in our social lives we would have to fail in recognizing race as a part of our everyday lives. This would be a challenging task, as it is near impossible to not think about the subject of race at least
