The Origin of Colorblindness

The earliest references to the word and the concept came from Wendell Phillips, who was the president of the American Anti-Slavery Society after William Lloyd Garrison. He used that exact phrase in many of his speeches in the 1860s. That's the oldest time I've ever read a public figure say the word colorblindness. So he was just seeing a head a hundred years, like how do I maintain my white privilege? Exactly. And he's paying it forward.