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[T]hough fear always seeks a thousand justifications, none is ever good enough, and the problems we run from only remain to haunt us.

— Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America (1991)

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Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. So it has become a weapon of choice.

In the end, black power can claim no higher moral standing than white power. [...] No power can long insist on itself without evoking an opposing power.

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The great ingenuity of interventions like affirmative action has not been that they give Americans a way to identify with the struggle of blacks, but that they give them a way to identify with racial virtuousness quite apart from blacks.

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