Ubuntu (for the color blind developer): Removing colors from ls

The Ubuntu virtual machine I created under Azure displays the output from ls as follows:

The file names are in light grey and the directory names are in illegible dark gray.  A lazy approach to fixing this was presented in Git (for the color blind): Detecting changes to a repository, which was simply to pipe the output through more to strip of the colors (ls | more). An example of this is as follows:

The real issue is that some person, who hates people who are color blinded, decided to alias ls to ls --color=auto as is shown when all the aliases are listed courtesy of the alias command (see below):

To fix this flaw in the default Ubuntu configuration use unalias ls as follows:

Once ls is unaliased the output is legible as is demonstrated below: