The multiracial future that Jefferson always feared, then, is already visible on the horizon. The positive way to put it is that covert racism is likely to surge primarily because racial interaction will be increasing, and “the arc of the moral universe” will be moving upward another increment. The historical way to put it is that every expansion in the meaning of “We the people” has been a struggle, residual prejudices may disappear but never die, and the ongoing battle for racial equality remains the longest, most challenging struggle in American history.
