Race was an idea developed and used in America to support slavery. Post-slavery race and other ideas, and practices and institutions that supported slavery, were not fully dismantled. Instead those things changed names and went underground a couple of levels, and continued to operate in American society. This is why that now, in 2015, we have two levels of wealth, freedom, and justice in America (as made clear by the many cases of unjust violence against African-Americans by the police, the wealth disparity between Whites and Blacks, the massive Black prison population due to harsher sentencing for Blacks). There exists in America now one level of opportunities, wealth, freedom for Whites and a lesser one for Blacks. Obviously this is not a good idea - given the fact that it is a source of harm and pain for millions of people in America and a source of unrest which interferes with the quality of life and peace for all. Also, the continued existence of the i...
