The President of the United States and most other white workers in Washington stayed away from the city on that day, testimony to whites' deep fear of this divide. The situation is more complex than institutionalized racism. The fact that blacks and whites are in separate worlds is intertwined with the fact that blacks and whites alike are mixed-blood people. Humanity is a mixed-blood species. Racism is a lie told within this truth.
Racism is politics parading in a guise of nature and natural law.
Bosnia or Los Angeles, colonialism and slavery cannot be understood otherwise. Mixed-blood humanity is sick with racial metaphysics. Organizational energy is diverted from a larger political arena into unresolvable squabbles that hobble leadership and group action. On one hand, when applied to issues of skin color, this linkage misses the mixed-blood truth of humanity's blood stream. Our potential to eliminate racism increases when we abandon the rhetoric of minority rights and raise the banner of human freedom.