I have not spent my time studying the problem of "race"-"race" itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. You see this from time to time when some dullard-usually believing himself white-proposes that the way forward is a grand orgy of black and white, ending only when we are all beige and thus the same "race." But a great number of "black" people already are beige. And the history of civilization is littered with dead "races" {Frankish, Italian, German, Irish} later abandoned because they no longer serve their purpose-the organization of people beneath, and beyond, the umbrella of rights.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
[ Between the World and Me ]
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