Blind Justice Takes the Doll Test

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." A tautology masquerading as a koan. Awesome!

What I find charming is that everyone, including Mr. Chief Justice, goes out of his way to affirm the moral imperative of an integerated society, to lament discrimination, and to identify racial diversity as a laudable, just, and necessary goal. Now conservatives fond of the "color-blind society" turn of phrase want you to believe--and are still stridently convincing themselves--that there is no particularism to see here, thank you very much, move along and quit your rubbernecking. But that's ridiculous. Integration is an explicitly racial goal. It is literally an accounting of races. These are the inescapable facts. You can't ask a man to move a mountain and deny him shovels.

Meanwhile, I think we can all agree that since white people are no longer racist, it must be the black people's fault.