Racial discrimination affects people's ability to see issues related to race because their thought process does not allow them to. If an individual is colorblind, he or she will see racial issues as human issues. For example, if a police officer stopped and frisked an African American, people would say, “It could happen to anyone.” According to Michelle Alexander, “The fact that so many black and brown men are arrested for drug crimes that are largely ignored when committed by whites is invisible” (241). This is an example of color blindness; he or she will only see him as an American who gets arrested. If you compared the arrest of African Americans and Latinos to that of whites, color blindness would not take one's ethnicity into consideration. Therefore, a color-blind society will create the illusion that racism does not exist in this day and age