Wrong on Race and Everything Else

What you see now in a state like North Carolina, heading backwards in a hurry, is extreme defensiveness on the one front, the denial of the wrong being done, and inappropriate pride in achievements accomplished elsewhere or by people not identified with the system.

Like Dean Smith and the Wright Brothers. North Carolina has rejected everything Dean stood for, and the Wright Brothers had nothing to do with the state. What we should put on our plates is "from the state that gave you lung cancer," and we should get back to white-boy basketball. 

North Carolina has returned to being about privilege and exclusion, so it's just disingenuous to pretend otherwise. As recent scandals have proven, the state is very happy to use young, black college athletes like horses in stables, and then it's off to the glue factory on graduation.