Panelist Ray Suarez, of the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, said that “we still see a white person as the default person, a regular person.”
Although disagreeing with one another, it was clear that the panelists agreed with Mathis that “When we define anything racial only on its edges, then we miss the story.”
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—Staff writer Kenyon S. Weaver can be reached at kweaver@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Daniel E. Fernandez can be reached at dfernand@fas.harvard.edu.