Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.”
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”