> "Group injustice has no existence apart from injustice to individuals. It's individuals who have brains to experience suffering. It's individuals who deserve, and often don't get, a fair chance at life. [...] Skin colour has nothing to do with it, nothing at all."
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>So, in defiance of this psychological difference, and in defiance of politics, let me point out that a group injustice has no existence apart from injustice to individuals. It's individuals who have brains to experience suffering. It's individuals who deserve, and often don't get, a fair chance at life. If God has not given intelligence in equal measure to all his children, God stands convicted of a crime against humanity, period. Skin colour has nothing to do with it, nothing at all.
He's claiming that skin color has nothing to do with the (according to him) injustice of different people having different intelligences. He's not claiming that skin color has nothing to do with why people don't get a fair chance at life. "Skin colour has nothing to do with it" is making a moral claim, not an empirical one.
Those parentheses obscure a significant point. The full paragraph is
>So, in defiance of this psychological difference, and in defiance of politics, let me point out that a group injustice has no existence apart from injustice to individuals. It's individuals who have brains to experience suffering. It's individuals who deserve, and often don't get, a fair chance at life. If God has not given intelligence in equal measure to all his children, God stands convicted of a crime against humanity, period. Skin colour has nothing to do with it, nothing at all.
He's claiming that skin color has nothing to do with the (according to him) injustice of different people having different intelligences. He's not claiming that skin color has nothing to do with why people don't get a fair chance at life. "Skin colour has nothing to do with it" is making a moral claim, not an empirical one.