I’ve been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America’s divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor. It is that the racial divide doesn’t feel like the other divides. There is a dimension of depth to it that the other divides don’t have. One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are born out of separation and inequality, but the racial divide is born out of sin. But I don’t think one can grasp the full amplitude of racial injustice without invoking the darkest impulses of human nature.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2019 23:26 UTC