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RACE HAS BEEN PASSE for some time now. Even when it does break through the sound barrier into national dialogue--even with something as mighty and undeniable as Hurricane Katrina--the story becomes about inept government bureaucracy, or pathologizing Black people, and finally fading to indifference. In fact, race seems to surface in our national culture only as a gimmick, in celebrity meltdowns or reality shows that traffic in the most blatant stereotypes of people of color behaving badly. We have the license to laugh at racism, but not the will to end it.
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