I remember a few years ago, someone I knew told me that it would be a bad thing if White people became racially conscious and banded together. And, at the time, I remember thinking, why would that be a problem? Everyone else is seemingly allowed to be grouped together based on traits except us.
Ironically, I think it was that very logical that got most of us here. Telling us as a racial group how shit we are, how evil we are, can't experience racism etc, while also forbidding us from seeing ourselves as a racial group with shared interests.
You do this for long enough, and people start identifying with one another using the very thing you tell them they aren't allowed to acknowledge. Colour blind existed once. And we were fine with it. It doesn't any more.