Crucial Distinction

Representative–or aberration? It’s a crucial distinction. If our society is measured against a standard of absolute racial and ethnic harmony, we’ll always fail, as will every other society that ever existed. If anyone is waiting for a time when every residue of racial animosity has vanished from every American, that time will never come.

[via MUSE MACHINE]

Do some people falsely make everything about race? Undoubtedly. But such false “playing of the race card” only works at all because widespread racial disparities in so many areas actually exist.

[via Levellers]