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Perhaps he is right. The fact is we are all in an impossible struggle because blacks are here. They should not be. After four centuries, they have never meaningfully assimilated into an American identity. They never can or will, because Americans are white.
There is no “we.” There never was. There has not been and will never be a multiracial “American people.” Nor will there ever be a shared understanding of justice, morality, or the will of God. There are only what politicians disingenuously call “our communities” — tribes of different peoples with fundamentally different interests locked in a zero-sum game.
Thomas Jefferson famously said of blacks: “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” America insists on pretending those lines are not there. Our children are the casualties. This case will remind us of these hard truths and hopefully wake up others. Yet if nothing changes, there will simply be another case in a few years.
It is about race. It will always be about race. The solution to the racial problem is separation. The rest is noise.
