> "When he was nearly forty years old, just four years shy of his appointment to the Court, Thomas set out the foundations of his vision in a profile in The Atl

> "When he was nearly forty years old, just four years shy of his appointment to the Court, Thomas set out the foundations of his vision in a profile in The Atlantic. “There is nothing you can do to get past black skin,” he said. “I don’t care how educated you are, how good you are at what you do—you’ll never have the same contacts or opportunities, you’ll never be seen as equal to whites.” People from Africa who've recently immigrated to the United States that I've talked to - be it North Africa (Sudan), West Africa (Nigeria) or East Africa (Tanzania) - really don't seem to share this mentality. It seems most prevalent among those born and raised in the USA (possibly this is true in Europe as well). As far as tech perspectives, it might be possible very soon to get CRISPR-type genetic treatments that alter skin pigment expression - proposed as a medical treatment for people with rare albinism that makes them highly sunlight-sensitive. There are a few recent papers on this. Western countries have (more-or-less) accepted trans-gender identification in conjunction with hormone/surgical alteration; I wonder if similar 'trans-racial' identification backed up by artificially altering skin cell pigment expression will ever become a thing.