People who say “I don’t see color” actually mean “I am ignorant of or denying the existence of systemic racism”. When these people are shown examples/statistics of, for example, cops killing/beating black people, these people will think to themselves “there must be another explanation, another reason why the officer beat that guy”.

They think that systemic racism no longer exists, that it’s a thing of the past. After all, we elected a black president didn’t we?