This essay is a response to Angela Harris' "Racing Law: Legal Scholarship and the Critical Race Revolution." It further explores what Harris calls the "grammars of governance" from a historical case-law perspective and from the structure of our contemporary educational organization. First, a little-known case involving violence to a slave from North Carolina is analyzed to exemplify the devastating racial ramifications that results from the manipulation of words and meanings. Second, our contemporary funding structure in public education is called into question to further show an ongoing acquiescence to the "grammars of governance" that projects equality but nevertheless sustains inequality.