This paper examines the impact of racism, specifically anti-Blackness, on the design and development of AI systems through cognitive modeling. Leveraging the ACT-R/Φ cognitive architecture and the ConceptNet knowledge graph system, we analyze the problem from cognitive, sociocultural, and physiological perspectives. Beyond using cognitive modeling as a means to explore anti-Blackness in AI system design and development from a software engineering perspective, we present connections among anti-Blackness, human beings, and computational cognitive modeling. We argue that the exclusion of sociocultural processes and knowledge structures from existing cognitive architectures and models implicitly promotes a color-blind approach, obscuring the sociocultural contexts that pervasively influence human behavior and cognitive processes.