In Aman v. Cort Furniture Rental Corp., a federal court of appeals found the following remarks directed at black employees to reveal discriminatory intent: “another one,” “one of them,” “that one in there,” and “all of you.”2 None of these terms even mention race, but, as the court explained, “while discriminatory conduct persists, violators have learned not to leave the proverbial ‘smoking gun’ behind. As one court has recognized, [d]efendants of even minimal sophistication will neither admit discriminatory animus [n]or leave a paper trail demonstrating it.” Thus, in the court’s view, we don’t need to hear openly racist statements to know that racism exists.