John Wayne Wants To Rap (He Just Don't Know How)

“Condoleezza Rice suggests race is one of America’s birth defects. You just have to scratch the surface and it’s always there. The reality is that America is a very tribal place. In cities, in my experience, the black community lives here, the Chinese community lives here, the Wasp community lives here, the Italian community lives here, the Hispanic community lives here. They work together much more cohesively perhaps than in Britain, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day everyone goes back to their own community. They learn about the other communities by watching TV. American civic and institutional integration is way ahead of ours. Mayors, senators, judges, police chiefs, the president, are all from a variety of backgrounds. But I’d say the social integration is closer to where Britain was in the 1970s,...”