I have spent much of my studies searching for the right question by which I might fully understand the breach between the world and me. 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 are already 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, and the umbrella of rights.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
[ Between the World and Me ]
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