Discrimination and Race (Malik Speaking)
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One of the mistakes we often make legally and morally is to group all racial discrimination together and then try to generalize about whether it is right or wrong. The whole idea is completely artificial and ignores all sorts of important facts that differ from case to case.

There is a world of difference morally between (a) discriminating against a person (or a group of people) in order to hold that person down or subordinate one group of people to another, and (b) discriminating against a person (or a group of people) in order to make up for the injustice of the past. Laws and moral judgments about discrimination in general often equate these two types of discrimination, but that is a fatal mistake.

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