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And one of the things that America stopped paying attention to was race.
So I guess racial profiling and other forms of racism don't apply to those of Arabic, Persian, Pakistani, Indian descent and so on. Or perhaps I missed the memo that there are only two colors that count in this country?
I'd like to think that racism is on its way out, but it seems to me that if Mr. Kamiya is correct about America not paying attention to race anymore, it could only be in terms of black and white. I certainly agree that there needs to be more than a sort of "us vs. them" dualist model of ethnicity (not to mention gender, sexual orientation, religion, politics, etc.); however, placing things in such "black" and "white" terms, and completely ignoring an enormous section of the American population in this discussion, is not going to help us get anywhere.
I'm not saying that Mr. Kamiya actually thinks that there are only two races in this country, it's just unfortunate that the article comes across that way.
