People have to become better students of this kind of violence before they have these reactions that seem to justify burning down half a city or writing headlines which attest.... that we have a real problem of lethal racist violence perpetuated by cops. Unless we find out more about the precursors to that event [the Jacob Blake shooting], there's no reason to even talk about race at this point. That's what's so sickening. My hypothesis is that virtually every mention of race is counterproductive now in our society. It's virtually only going to push society in one direction, which is greater polarization, greater derangement, greater hysteria, [and] less contact with actual facts. It's also going to increase the likelihood that we're going to get 4 more years of Donald Trump.