I believe that what he is talking about in the second quote is that as Americans we would prefer to believe that our race doesn't matter and that the person is important. That we like to think people would judge us for who we are instead of who we are not and that we could somehow get a kind of respect through that. He is also saying that despite our desire to believe this we are actually judge by our race before others do interact with us lumping the individual with the whole.I know that I fall into this and that I allow myself to do the same to others, but I try to allow them to change that perception so that I won't hold them to unfortunate stereotypes.
Chris Fair
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