This observation is not far off in terms of the racial engineering that has gone on in the Democratic Party today, they seek the token minority that will affirm their view, not have their own view.
Jon Stewart is right that we will be better off when the racial wallpaper is taken down, but to tear it down and keep it down, we must recognize that it is more effect than cause.
From this beginning flowed the hallucinatory stream of ordinary, grand, awful images for which he is well known: carnage-strewn car wrecks and pretty flowers; sweet Marilyn and imperturbable Mao, off-the-roof suicides and racial assaults; portraits of the rich and now half-forgotten famous; shimmery abstract paintings made from diamond dust and urine.
In northwest Florida, an all-black town was wiped off the map by racial violence during the Rosewood massacre in 1923.
State officials are reported close to reaching a multimillion-dollar settlement with the four unarmed athletes whose shooting by state troopers almost three years ago on the New Jersey Turnpike set off the state's racial profiling scandal.
The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu).
The law they took off the books, entitled the Racial Justice Act, was passed by a Democratic legislature in 2009 to compensate for what was perceived to be pervasive racial bias in the application of the death penalty.
We seem incapable of understanding the meaning and ramifications of the United States' deadly actions in Afghanistan and Iraq (and elsewhere), the economic injustices exposed by the Wall Street rip-off of 2007-2008, and the racial injustices symbolized by events in Ferguson Missouri and Flint Michigan.
Leitch's vetting for values proposal is emblematic of that, she said, but cutting off immigration entirely would worsen the racial tension.
Then Sanders delivered what may be his most articulate and impassioned denunciation of systemic racial inequality in an off-the-cuff setting.
