The battle for the Democratic nomination has occasionally been imbued with racial arguments and overtones, leading all candidates last week to call for a truce.
He demonstrates time and again how the American imperialists applied racial arguments to explain why colonial subjects were not worthy of self-government.
Other countries were absolutely aware of this stitch-up and resented being forced to adopt American norms in order to satisfy racial arguments internal to the US.
As we know, the Nazis used contrived "racial" arguments as a philosophical cornerstone for justification of their persecutions of Jews, as well as most people of color and people with disabilities.
While the impetus behind these highly charged reactions and racial arguments warrant real debate and focus, an equally glaring issue in the Brown and Garner cases is the way in which the district attorneys presented the cases to their respective grand juries.
Throw in the fact that service in the outer-boroughs, like gentrified Brooklyn, could just as much serve slightly-less-rich drunk white kids, then the Uber-as-racial-equalizer argument seems pretty flaccid.
Zack (2002, 87 88) provides an accessible summary of the racial skeptic's argument against the biological foundations for race, sequentially summarizing the scientific rejection of essences, geography, phenotypes, post-Mendelian transmission genetics, and genealogies as possible foundations for races.
Unfortunately for the 20-year-old, the fact that he was standing next to a flag bearing a Celtic cross a symbol associated with the kind of white people who traditionally kick up a fuss about stuff like bloodlines and racial purity meant his argument fell a little flat.
But taking an inclusive approach, she said, fostered discussions that had "no racial accusations, divisive arguments or emotional ploys — just solution-oriented support".
The argument over racial profiling by state troopers in New Jersey has become an argument over numbers.
