Sublime

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

a belief

policies.

“achieving a better life

of racial inequities.

out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.

“We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.