The new attacks on the idea of color-blindness aren't intended to solve race problems...they're meant to create new laws giving preferences to certain people. Those certain people are non-white mostly black.
The new racists don't want any such thing as a color-blind society. They want to reverse the situation with blacks the top dog and whites forced to submit to their whims.
The idea that the least accomplished/most inept percent of the American population telling the other 87% what to do might seem preposterous. But not to the race merchants.