毕竟，尽管美国20世纪初的种族法律已经不复存在，但它仍拥有当时那样过热的民主秩序和普通法的灵活裁量；上述制度也许无法再制定歧视黑人的法律；但举例来讲，美国的刑事司法制度仍然是制度化种族主义的模范代表。
After all, while America’s early-twentieth-century race laws are gone, it still has the same overheated democratic order and common-law flexibility that it had back then. These institutions might no longer produce Jim Crow laws; but the American criminal-justice system, for example, remains a poster child for institutionalized racism.