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Microinvalidations are verbal comments or behaviors that exclude, negate, or dismiss the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a target group. Like microinsults, they are unintentional and usually outside the perpetrator's awareness. A frequent refrain to the “Black Lives Matter” slogan is that “all lives matter.” These statements negate the sociohistorical and political lived experience of Black people. In other words, the comeback denies the racialized experiences of African Americans, implies that being Black is no different than being white, and by extension suggests all lives are equally valued in our society. Such statements have been coined by researchers as “color‐blind” attitudes, and research shows that among White adults in a workplace setting, higher color‐blind attitudes are associated with lower likelihoods of perceiving microaggressions (Offermann et al., 2014). This last point is extremely important for counselor/therapists who may approach clients of color with a color‐blind attitude.