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After the Gates program, I was interested. I didn't know that it was so easy to do. The price is a little steep for my level of interest, but maybe I'll do it.
I think wide-spread general knowledge about individual racial background has interesting implications for discussions about race and how we think about history.
Think about the argument for reparations for slavery. Does Henry Louis Gates pay himself?
(I’m kidding about that, really, but it’s interesting to think about what it says about our ideas of race.)
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