"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).