Here’s the bottom line: Race is central to the story of the United States. I didn’t inject that into the narrative. Race is an issue today in NOLA and it was an issue two weeks ago and it has been an issue for roughly four centuries. We had a war over it. We had a century of Jim Crow and then a Civil Rights movement. Someone tell me when race ceased to matter. Just because your favorite athlete is Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods doesn’t mean you have an exemption from ever thinking about race again. The “colorblind” society is perhaps a noble goal, but it doesn’t exist yet.
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The Human Genome project proved “race??? doesn’t exist. The sooner everyone excepts this scientific evidence, the sooner we can stop labeling each other.