Our predominantly liberal culture is obsessed with race and wants to place it at the forefront of every single human interaction. But it doesn’t need to be that way, and the country would be better off if it weren’t.

In an interview with AARP, actor and director Tyler Perry explained that he hadn’t talked about race with his 7-year-old son. “I don’t want to tell him that there are people who will judge him because of the color of his skin, because right now, he’s in a school with every race. And all these kids are in their purest form,” Perry said. “When he describes his friends, he never defines them by race. So, the moment he loses that innocence is going to be a very, very sad day for me.”