“[W]e need to develop a new racial sense that we are so intermarried and assimilated that cardboard racial cutouts are irrelevant. Our new racialism must be seen as a reactionary and dangerous return to 19th-century norm of judging our appearance on the outside as more valuable than who we are on the inside.”

2010s, The Origins of Our Second Civil War (2018)

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American military historian, essayist, university professor 1953

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