I think this is because as an undergrad at UVA it was just assumed that if you were smart enough to get in Mr. Jefferson’s University, you knew that American political, judicial, educational, and religious systems were riddled with racism, just as they were with prejudice against women, gays, and other groups, including Sally Hemings.

It was the 1960s. It wasn’t like institutional racism wasn’t visible; if anything, it was so visible many white Americans didn’t even see it. Like today.

UVA too had few women and Blacks because you can’t just legislate away racism, patriarchy, and homophobia. That’s what institutionalized means: Everything around and within you has always been the way it is. Black people like to sit together in the back of the bus, don’t they?

UVA too had few women and Blacks because you can’t just legislate away racism, patriarchy, and homophobia. That’s what institutionalized means: Everything around and within you has always been the way it is. Black people like to sit together in the back of the bus, don’t they?

Not reading Marx (or Freud) is a pity though, because you can’t understand capitalism without its critique, and you certainly have no idea what you’re talking about if you don’t get why Marx was one of the most important thinkers of the modern era.

History means times change, because now almost everyone can vote if they have a valid photo ID and can get off work and get a ride to the polls before 7 p.m.

Since Darwin, we call God’s will human nature. It may be human nature to be afraid of strangers with different skin color or  customs, and human nature for males to want to dominate females, as in the animal kingdom.

We should uproot institutionalized prejudice everywhere, for the defining component of a democracy is a well-educated population constantly critiquing the evidence of things not seen.