Summary

Jeff Chang begins by noting the seriousness of the present times in which police brutality, systemic racism, and resegregation is on the rise. The United States is polarizing and it is clear that there was never a post-racial time in recent history. Race relations are a serious issue and people have become more aware of implicit bias, stereotype threat, and the empathy gap. Racism kills whether that be through police brutality or disparities in access to things like food and healthcare all while resegregation makes it easier for the privileged to turn a blind eye.

Culture-war extremists "water the seed of insecurity into a weed of hate [...] by seizing on white fears of the future, conflating economic insecurity and looming demographic eclipse" (6). Culture wards allow unequal structures to persist while resegregation grows "not from white ignorance, but from white refusal and...