"But what if I am overstating these points and everyone really does accept that race is cultural and not biological? Is this really such a good thing? If human beings are not members of scientifically measurable "bioraces," then why pretend as though they are? Why do the work of making race by other, non-scientific means? If witchcraft isn't real, then why pretend as though witches walk among us? When I asked Adrian Piper, the artist who 'retired' from being black, whether she believed there was even something so straightforward as a 'black' sensibility, she denied it. Her point, which is worth taking seriously, is similar to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s: All human culture is available and knowable to all human beings. (Which is not quite the same as saying all human culture is equally important to all human beings.)"
~~ from Unlearning Race: Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams
