"The Point of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 Was Not to Change People's Attitudes, It Was to Change Their Public Behavior"

"Combating racism becomes a convenient alternative to attacking inequality and inequality, even those inequalities that appear or the manifest themselves as racial disparities. Because the struggle against racism is exactly parallel to the struggle against terrorism… It can go on forever, because the enemy is an abstraction that you can define however you want to define it, at the moment that you wanted to find it."

Matt Taibbi at Substack interviews Adolph Reed.