Events over the past 30 days – and reactions to them – have cast a light on simmering tensions over attitudes toward race and gender. On June 16, announcing his presidential bid, real-estate developer and TV celebrity Donald Trump criticized Mexico and immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally. "They're bringing drugs," he said. "They're bringing crime. They're rapists." On June 18, a gunman – allegedly one Dylan Roof – shot and killed nine black church members, including a state senator, at a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling overturned state bans on gay marriage . And on July 8, a federal judge ruled to cancel the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration, stating the name denigrates Native Americans. The high court’s decision legitimizing intra-gender marriage (Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Alito and Thomas dissented) is, in my view, similar to the over