In which the learned and well meaning professor tries to explain why, when polite people have been taught to be colour-blind, events cause people actually to talk about race. Which is not supposed to exist, right? Race is simultaneously supposed not to exist, and exists nevertheless. And he has white grandchildren.
“Ethnicity is essential to identity”, he says, and to suppress discussion of race is to handicap our children.
Ten points, sir, for honesty and truth.
Except, in my view, for the idea that race does not exist. Which is the grand denial of biology.