"the overwhelming majority of whom were black..."

A sentence that jumped out at me from an article on torture by Douglas Turner of the Buffalo News about methods used by the United States in the past.

If we look for race in everything, that's what makes us racists. This sentence has no place in this story. The fact that the tests that it refers to were done isn't good, but race has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's just race-baiting.

The sentence reads just as effectively when written "Keeney in 1962 covertly set up a CIA front called MK-ULTRA, which used the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies to conduct tests on unwitting federal inmates to chart the effect of hallucinogenic drugs."

Shameful in an otherwise decent story.