A new study about traffic stops of minority motorists shows that minorities are more likely to be threatened with force or searched. One question you sometimes hear is why do we study whether minorities are more likely to be harassed. Isn't that just divisive to try to study things by race? I don't think it is so. It is not enough to just say we have made racial progress- we need to study and find empirically that our attempts at creating racial justice are working. If we do not find this, we need to see if maybe our methods are not doing the job. Yes, some people will say it is divisive, but instead of throwing out looking for the truth, maybe we should ask those people to adjust their attitudes, and start being more fact based.