Peter Coates
1 min readMar 16, 2024

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I think there are some extreme flaws in this analysis and in the entire project. In the last three generations we made giant strides equality in a relatively short time. I'm still working age, and I personally remember whites-only signs on drinking fountains, movie theater seating, etc, and when races didn't play on the same sports teams! We did this by the entire country buying into an MLK-style strategy of making race NOT the important thing about a person. The recent massive move, ironically instigated from the left, to making race the main thing is insane. Think about it abstractly---in the long run, making race the most important thing about people in a society can only work for members of the most populous and powerful racial group. In a society with one group being 65% and all the rest put together being 35%, it borders on insanity. MLK himself believed that in fact, race was something of a red herring, and that the bigger divisions were between the advantaged and the disadvantaged classes. That's where the real fight is being lost today. All of the money and power are concentrating in the hands of the 1%, while the rest of the people have been set to fighting each other over identity.

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Peter Coates
Peter Coates

Written by Peter Coates

I was an artist until my thirties when I discovered computers and jumped ship for a few decades. Now I'm back to it. You can probably find some on instagram.

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