race

“The way that we do race, the way that we came up with color, abstract color categories that group people along a scale of hierarchy, this was handed down to us from the slave trade. This is the product of the collision of Europe and Africa and the New World th…”

“There's no such thing as colorblind. You need to see color. Seeing color is the most beautiful thing in the world. It's what we attach to that color.”

“Race is not correlated with who's poor and who who's rich or rather it's correlated, but it's not the best proxy. Right. It's much better to simply look at people's tax returns and income if you want to see who's rich.”

“My argument is always that you should just look directly at those proxies themselves. So if you're a college Admissions office and you want to help disadvantaged students get in. Okay, that's fine, but don't equate blackness with disadvantage. If you want to a…”