It was in the 2006 case of League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry that Chief Justice John Roberts gave us an appropriate thought to contemplate on this Inauguration Day. “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race,” he wrote.

The Chief Justice was writing about race-based redrawing of legislative districts. His words, though, are instructive for a much broader societal context. Now that we are inaugurating an African-American to the highest office in the land, can we finally stop analyzing just about everything through the prism of race? Please?

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