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Originally Posted by abc_123
What is the date in this country that we can truely move beyond race?
When do we declare that institutional racisim has come to an end? What is the "exit strategy" from affirmative action programs? What are the metrics that we're using to make that decision? Or, are we hoping for Jessee and Al to tell us?
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The date? Shortly after it ceases to be a useful and profitable tool. A sly politician can reward one group, punish another, and intimidate yet another - all to the politician's benefit.
So long as the various groups fear and distrust each other, so long as they cannot coalesce, control is easy. As Machiavelli said:
Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.
All MOO, YMMV.