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This year, the ideas that I’ve worked so hard to advance have achieved some political success and cultural mainstreaming. Otherwise, it was a year of helping several important people in my life through difficult health problems. My older relatives have slowed down. I really felt I was rushing from one crisis to the next. (more…)
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Despite the sickly-sweet rainbow-colored lollipops they’ve been trying to sell us for generations now, racial violence will be a factor in any multiracial society — especially when that multiracial society endlessly posits these groups as warring tribes with unsettled historical grievances. Until everyone decides to assimilate and breed into one indistinguishably cross-blurred and hybridized mess — i.e., never — there will be racial conflict and racial hierarchies, with much of the pecking order decided by who controls street violence. (more…)