By now I'm sure many of you have seen or heard about the Tomi Lahren Video. If not, watch at your own discretion, it's definitely worth a trigger warning for the amount of ignorance she spews off.

But the part I wanted to talk about is this quote from Lahren,

"It doesn’t mean I don’t like black people or that I’m racist. I don’t see color."

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah host had a very clever comeback, “You don’t see color? So what do you do at a traffic light?”

This will literally for the rest of my life be my response to anyone who claims not to see color. Not only is that problematic as Blindness is an actual illness, but it furthers your ignorance if you believe that by telling me you can't even see me will somehow fix a problem.

It is quite concerning that Lahren is not alone in her belief that color blindness is the cure to racism. Once you stop seeing us, you stop seeing our problems, solving absolutely nothing. It would be absurd to pretend that people don't have variation in skin tones, and if you really believed that you'd stop getting artificial tans.

I want you to see my melanin because it's beautiful, do not ignore it because it makes you uncomfortable. It is a privilege to even claim to be colorblind because people of color have to deal with the implications of racial discrimination in any aspect of life, from racism on the street and in public to colorism within our own communities between lighter and darker shades of the same race.

So next time you think you're being so progressive and you totally don't even see color, remember that you are just empasizing the concerns of marginalized people of color across the world. Because once you stop seeing us, you cannot be apart of the solution.