The Rand Paul episode reveals a drastic misreading of history and of the government's role in ending racial discrimination in this nation.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

Rand Paul is wrong, as the libertarian position should not be to defend Jim Crow but to condemn it due to its unjust bigotry and its economic folly.

Blacks are still largely lock-step Democratic voters and will probably remain so for a while. But when you listen to the likes of West and Clyburn, never mind silly white liberals like Garofalo, one cannot help but be reassured that the ground is shifting under their feet as inexorably as it shifted under the feet of racists more than a generation ago.

Barack Obama's election is the capstone on decades of increasing integration.

The Founders intended for individuals to choose their representatives based on their character and how well they would promote the common good, not because of their membership in any one racial, ethnic, or religious group. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 sought to reaffirm this principle by outlawing the...

Is Harry Reid the Democrats' Trent Lott?

Until the Iowa caucuses a year ago, most blacks rejected Barack Obama in favor of the Democrat who could win.