Several recent issues involving arts groups and race have made headlines and angered minority interest groups, and each incident has rekindled old angers that we’re continually told are supposed to be passe in a “post-racial” America. “It’s an endlessly renewable rite in American life, it seems, an almost reflexive response to anything inflected by a question about race… The arts, we believe, we hope, are different, a realm where we really can connect — beyond race and class, beyond identity. We shouldn’t have to count and keep score and pay attention in that way.”