they may take the Implicit Association Test from Harvard on subsconscious racism and find out differently). In fact, the IAT lets us know that even among the people who say they are the least racist, up springs bias in unconscious tests.

Blacks also show subconscious racism toward blacks on the IAT (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/black-on-black-racism-the-hazards-of-implicit-bias/384028/). The systemic nature of racism (which, recall, was the basis of the plaintiff’s argument in Brown v. Board of Education) lends some (not all) support to Mr. Baker’s complaint.

“But I don’t see race.”

Well, good on Mr. Baker that he did not say or imply that. What he said instead is that he is accepting of the reality of racism and race history that you referred to. But responding to what he actually said, instead of your inversion of it, would not make him such a convenient target for your harangue and your … ahem … black and white division. It’s actually quite unfortunate when there are so many ready at hand who do say things equivalent to the quoted statement.

At the same time, given that race history, which includes centuries of suppression, jailing, beating, lynching, and shooting, etc., allowances should be made for the ensuing anger and a certain disregard for intellectual honesty on some occasions, which is not rightly called racism (or even bigotry), contrary to Mr. Baker, who no doubt has a lot to learn on the subject.