It is always in the background, surging inexorably and carrying everything along with it. Like Einstein's time, the meaning of race in American depends entirely upon who does the observing and from where they do it. No one chooses his or her skin color. However, every one of us chooses whether or not color has meaning. Time is a paradox in the universe.
Race is a paradox in America.
And Space Who acts within this construct of American space and time matters a great deal. Criminals are the natural and elective sociopaths who savage civil life. They frighten all of us and injure too many of us. Capitalists are those people who take the great risk to build businesses. They make jobs for the rest of us.