[Ads-l] "You are evidently _de-synthesized_ to it."

[James A. Landau]

On  Thu, 13 Apr 2017 at 18:20:04 Zone-0400 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Sarcastic response by "Fuerza" to "JMar," who asserts that there no 
>longer exists any discrimination in the U.S.

This leads into a pet peeve of mine, namely that people use the word "postracial" as if it were a binary term, that is, the United States is either postracial or it is not.

"Postracial" should be a quantitative term, to be expressed in percent.  One should say "the United States is 80 percent postracial" (or perhaps the correct figure is 20 percent; I won't argue).

Amidst the ton of political e-mails I get every day, there are ones denouncing the Republicans for race-based gerrymandering.  I expect that soon the courts will be hearing cases about gerrymandering for the purposes of racial discrimination.  Very far from 100 percent postracial.

- Jim Landau

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