The nature of the vast and old—but not nearly eternal—racial injury visited upon all of us, because it does harm us all, but visited with special vehemence upon blacks as a group is inherently an injustice. Let us acknowledge this, let us grieve about it when we need to, but above all let us earnestly search for and find ways to fix it. I can think of no better start than rejecting the very logic that created and perpetuates the injury in the first place.
