But fans love them, because they are so often the cause of race-defining drama.
He was one of 10 members appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Kerner Commission, which investigated the causes of race riots in scores of cities in 1967 and concluded that the country was becoming "two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal".
"Particular care must be taken to avoid causing offence on the grounds of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age," rule 4.1 of the code states.
And at the moment, at least, Vice President Al Gore seems to enjoy a commanding advantage with African-American voters, despite former Senator Bill Bradley's passionate commitment to the cause of improving race relations.
Brown's racial cross-identification — "His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine," Frederick Douglass said; the scholar John Stauffer cites evidence he may have tried to darken his skin in photographs — makes him doubly relevant to hip-hop America; were he alive today, Brown might well be Eminem.
"This is a horse that furthers the cause of international racing.
And the motivation for their doing so was to try to cause bloc voters of race to vote solely on skin color.
This had considered the causes of the race riots in the summer of that year, and I coined the phrase "parallel lives" to describe the way in which different communities had become segregated and lived in fear and ignorance of each other.
On this view, race is whatever in the world corresponds to or causes our talk of race.
Low income was associated with all-cause mortality regardless of race (HR 1.53; 95% CI 1.18-1.99 among blacks and HR 1.38; 95% CI 1.10-1.74 among whites), with no significant statistical interaction between household income and race (p-value = 0.634).
