Race Doesn’t Exist

Race is a subject about which we all feel slightly nervous these days, because whatever attitude you take to it, someone will call you a racist, an accusation from which no plea of innocence is allowed or believed. This is because it is almost impossible to be consistent about it; and it is why, in general, I avoid it as a subject.

We are told on the one hand that the very concept of race is an evil construction without objective validity, whose main purpose is to serve prejudice; on the othe...