American Racism: Its Decline, Its Baleful Resurgence, and Our Looming Race War

Individualism is the theory of human nature that Individuality is real, it is important, and each individual has the inalienable right to life, to liberty, to earn and to own property, and to pursue personal happiness.On such a theory, we recognize that racial differences are real—but we also recognize that they are trivial differences between and among us, akin to the differences in hair and eye color among many white people.Of central We recognize that individuals make moral choices, and we judge them based on these choices, not based on the tribe into which they happened to be born.