I think we're really poised at the outset of a new vision of the US. The position seems to be that we have reached the end of racial politics; post-racialism, if you will. The inherent idea is that we are also post-racism. On the one hand, this is a world I want to live in. On the other hand, personally I don't think we're there yet. Then again, how will we know when we get there?
From the NY Times OpEd: Powerful voices on the court, including Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion on Monday, began to call for something close to a zero-tolerance policy when it came to government counting its citizens by race for any purpose. And the court became skeptical of Congress’s making its own legislative judgments in ways that threatened to expand the boundaries of the court’s own narrowing constitutional vision. More...
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