Randall Kennedy

Black people aren't stupid.

They know that they're paying this tax.

It is a violation of, it seems to me, the rules that we ought to want to have to govern our society.

I say spread the costs.

make the police deal with everybody the same, and don't allow a situation to develop in which a group of people can accurately say, we are paying more of a cost than these other people over here.

Oh, now you've, okay, fine.

Now you've asked me a question in which I throw up my hands and I don't know.

It's a huge problem.

I don't, you know, I mean, I don't, I'm not going to pretend that I know enough

to grapple in a satisfactory way with such a question.

I mean, to really grapple with that question, one really has to have a, you know, a

very broad knowledge base in which they can make comparisons.

I mean, the world's a big place.

Now, from the little bit I know about the world, I read.

I read as much as I can.

I'm a very privileged character.

I mean, I live in a university, so I'm reading constantly and listening constantly.

From what I gather, the problem of divided societies is a problem that is worldwide and

And it seems as though human ingenuity is such that humans will find something to divide over.

It might be texture of hair.