If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.