The left’s attacks on the basic core American ideal of colorblindness

The writer Coleman Hughes went on “The View” and was greeted almost as though he had shown up wearing a white hood.

Hughes, a soft-spoken black intellectual who is a political independent, was talking about his new book, “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.” 

Once upon a time, colorblindness was an uncontroversial idea. It was considered a core American ideal and worth aspiring to, even if we were failing to live up to it.

In recent decades, though, it has run into a buzz-saw of opposition. It clashes with the Left’s near-theological commitment to racial preferences, especially on college campuses, and with fashionable new forms of left-wing racialism.

So it is naive, out-of-date and, worse, even a tool of oppression used by sneaky racists to hide their malignant designs in lofty rhetoric. 

This was the attitude of co-host Sunny Hostin when Hughes showed up on set.