"We have institutionalized race consciousness to the very core of our society, so it should be evident why it persists. It's the law.
These laws, by transforming human beings into racial categories, dehumanize blacks and whites."
My sentiments exactly.
Yep. A government & its quasi-governmental appendages which relentlessly divide its own citizenry into official racial categories can't very well claim to be "shocked, shocked I tell you" when those citizens partition themselves off into the very same racial categories that the elites have assigned to them for every facet of their lives.
We are racist because our governments, politicians,courts, religious figures, educational systems, business institutions, chattering classes and communications & entertainment establishment are racist to the core, and carve up social spoils commensurate with the racist criteria they themselves have created for us.
That ain't rocket science, it's just Anthropology 101.