That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found common cause in fighting the bigotry both communities faced earlier in the 20th century. However, white skin privilege among the Irish separated them from blacks, who had no such advantage to fall back upon. The solution is to fight bigotry and racism wherever they appear, and to root out the forces of oppression as conscientiously as possible.

Even when you don't know, you're supposed to know.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics.

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.