Regarding the Times’ headline and story, I was trying to wax poetically, succinctly — comments are limited to 1,500 characters — when I should have just hit the nail on the head: American racism, bigotry, xenophobia have always kept the door open for the use of any tool, technique, idea, policy, nor matter how preposterous, to cover up realities of race and ethnicity in America.

Check out this reading. There are lots more like it — like Drapetomania!!!