Visual art is very freeing, because it answers only to the eye. - Nell Irvin Painter

The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down, and so those needs change over time.

I live in Newark, which was heavily - actually bulldozed in the 1960s in urban renewal. And we think of urban renewal as harming black people, which of course it did, but it also hit some other vulnerable people, and Italian-American neighborhoods also got it.

The census keeps counting us by race for purposes of undoing racial harm in the past.