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I've always found the concept of the "race card" fascinating. What is it? It's how disgruntled white people objectify a non-white's entering into race politics. The cool thing about objectifying something intangible is that it makes it easier to nullify it and file it away somewhere without having to engage it directly. You know, with logic....maybe counterarguments, if not some kind of problem-solving or information-gathering procedure.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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