"The 63-year-old educational consultant and psychotherapist is part of a small but increasingly vocal group of people who favor phasing out racial categories...."

"Yet they recoil at the idea of being confused with people who call themselves 'colorblind,' those 'who are trying to deny that there is racism in the world,' [Carlos] Hoyt said. The government must account for harms caused by 'race,' but without resorting to debunked categories that suggest it is biological, he said. Hoyt read aloud the Census Bureau’s caveats, that 'the racial categories included in the Census Questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country, and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically.' He sighed. 'To recognize that race … is a false concept but to keep doing it anyway, there’s something intellectually problematic about it.'... There’s a principle in psychotherapy that says you don’t take away a client’s defenses unless you have something to replace it with, because it’s serving a purpose, right?' said Hoyt...."

From "Race isn’t real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect that. A small but vocal group of professionals and academics imagine a future where categories don’t matter" (WaPo).
"To tide Americans over to a more egalitarian time, Hoyt and others suggest that people use alternatives for self-description. For example there’s 'classified [insert racial category ],' '[insert racial category]-identified,' and Hoyt’s personal preference, 'racialized [insert racial category],' which refers to the way in which one is perceived or what has been done to a person, in contrast to who one is down to a debunked genetic notion. Such descriptors could still allow the government to account for possible harms caused by modern and historic discrimination, Hoyt and others believe."

That is, instead of saying "I am black" or "I am white," you would say "I am racialized black" or "I am racialized white." It seems to me that once you add that extra word — "racialized" — you're calling attention to something wrong that has been done to you. I would think that this method of "tiding us over" — if it were accepted — would drive people toward a preference for colorblindness. And yet they "recoil at the idea of being confused with people who call themselves 'colorblind.'"