Ingrid Ellis’s Reviews > Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents > Status Update

“Some states were slow to throw out their endogamy laws. Alabama, the last state to do so, didn’t throw out its law against intermarriage until the year 2000. Even then, 40% of the referendum voted in favor of keeping the marriage ban on the books.” bro I was ALIVE then

race does not exist — all human beings are 99.9% the same

there are no “black” people in africa

the country cannot become whole until it confronts what was not a chapter in its history, but the basis of its economic and social order.