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For bad or good, nigger is destined to remain with us for many years to come—a reminder of the ironies and dilemmas, the tragedies and glories of the American experience.

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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

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Many Americans talk of wanting to create a society in which racial boundaries have disappeared and race no longer matters to anyone. At the same time, though, many of these same people either organize themselves implicitly or explicitly around racial signposts or support others who do.

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The experience of racial oppression provides no inoculation against complacency. Nor does it inoculate its victims against their own versions of prejudice and tyranny.

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Randall Kennedy

Randall Kennedy

Born: September 10, 1954 (age 71)

Bio: Randall L. Kennedy is an American Law professor and author at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life.

Known for:

Race, Crime, and the Law (1997)
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (2008)

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