Out of the crooked timber that is humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant
The United States is not a perfect union; it is the quest for a more perfect union. In that quest, two visions now confront each other. The civil rights era ended legal segregation and inequality, and the country is ready to move further toward the promise inherent in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution: that human beings are all created equal and have equal rights.
On the one hand, there is the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. In his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, King expressed a desire that his children might be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.REF
On the other hand, there is the revanchism of “anti-racist” professor Ibram X. Kendi and his followers, who believe that the only remedy to discrimination in the past is discrimination in the present.
