Incredibly dishonest Will. My quote, for instance, does not say all white people are racist. It says ALL people regardless of race, raised in a nation such as this, where racism has been prevalent, will have internalized certain elements of racist thinking...but that doesn't mean anyone is simply "a racist." I also think people can learn to be antiracist and to oppose racism...no one is one dimensional. We can have certain ingrained biases, sure, but also resist those biases.

As for Bell, have you read his book? Nothing in those quotes says "white people" anything. Professor Bell believed the nation was structurally racist to be sure but spent very little time on white people as people, being racist, let alone "all white people." His belief was that the institutions and those in charge of them find ways to replicate racial inequity despite civil rights laws. By the way, this is not far removed from being a racial version of class analysis, which you favor, which says capitalists find ways to replicate the class system in their interests (but not everyone is a capitalist, so not everyone is directly to blame for that).

Bell was making a simialr argument about race, which is historically just as verifiable as the claims of Marxist scholars you favor (Adolph Reed for instance) who would argue a similar thing about class elites.

Sometimes you make good and interesting points Will. But this is not one of those times.