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I thought we needed to be colorblind to fight racism — here's what convinced me I was wrong grayscale photo of people walking on street I realized I had to give up my quest for colorblindness when I stood slack-jawed as a Black school board member asked how we would know if racist policies and practices had been curtailed if we didn't track disciplinary records, graduation rates and other statistics by race. I had no answer for him — there was no good answer. That was several years ago when I was a young journalist and new father and husband in Myrtle Beach, S.C. There still...

Where does Barack Obama really stand on racial issues? Is he the post-racial bipartisan conciliator of his campaign image, or is he the black racial activist depicted in his autobiography? On this issue, for once, Obama's stance is quite clear. Acolytes in the Obama Cult are taught that, when proselytizing over the phone for new converts, they should not answer direct questions about what Obama stands for, other than "hope" and "change," but instead should tell the inquirer to go look up the candidate's policy po...

The Tuscaloosa News An article in the Wall Street Journal’s Nov. 20, 2020, edition, “The Duo That Defeated the ‘Diversity Industry,” caught my attention. The authors are an unlikely pair — a black man and an Asian-American woman — who joined and led “the team that vanquished California’s progressive elite on Nov. 3, when Proposition 16 — a ballot referendum that would have reinstated racial preference by state and local government agencies, including universities — was defeated.” These two, Ward Connerly and Wenyuan Wu, caught the spirit of a new wave of an old movement ...

>> because they were the ones who could go to the schools particularly in the south. >> ward connerly, the litigant in most of these cases, fighting a lot of propositions in california and elsewhere, he has fought that and the university of california got rid of legacies in 2000 thanks to that. at least he's consistent about that. but i think you can principally oppose affirmative action -- where racism still exists in this country. i would argue it's more prejudice than racism on a day-to-day basis. people just put -- you've been talking about this all day -- people in boxes and can't imagine...

The measure is often what you avoid.s was he progressive at all, wasey there any part of him progressive because he didn't seem -- progressives on the n' republican side tend to go outbn and do war, but war as americans led by americans.merica. theodore roosevelt where the progress as i was on therac si democratic side go on and do war under an international umbrellab so was he progressive at all?ll not just on war? war? >> i would say he was liberal ir the classic liberal sense, that is, he stood up for the individual. >> he was lib tearan.ibrian >> he was liberal in the european sense which ...