The Emory Wheel - NAACP lawyer speaks on progress, development of civil rights history: " Constitution draws no distinctions on the 'colorblindness' that it claims to uphold,' Shaw said. Originally... black leaders [of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] used colorblindness as a way of saying that race does not make a difference but that people should not be blind to race as long as it continues to be significant,' he added.

Rather than being used as a means of gaining black equality, affirmative action is often employed to make communities more diverse, he said.

Shaw said this 'dishonest discourse' that is also present in the courts brings up some of the struggles blacks have yet to face.

'Affirmative action did not spring out of somebody's head because someone said racial diversity is a good thing, but is the result of the deep and long history of slavery, suffrage and civil rights,' he said."