The attorney general's interpretation of the Voting Rights Act and proposed guidelines to ensure that certain states obtain federal approval for all proposed changes in voting procedure including "redrawing districting maps" will negatively affect the landscape of American politics for decades to come.
Tim Scott's victory over Paul Thurmond in the GOP primary in South Carolina's First Congressional District is welcome reinforcement that American race relations have changed since the days of Thurmond's father, staunch segregationist advocate Strom Thurmond.
Forty-five years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department has adopted a definition of discriminatory intent that strengthens the federal hand in micromanaging districting in states and counties throughout the United States and increases the odds that the Supreme Court will soon cast a skeptical eye on Section 5.
Four-term congressman Artur Davis was defeated in his bid to become the Democratic nominee for governor of Alabama, but his loss was the result of normal politics and no data suggest race was the decisive factor.
By checking the "black" box on his census form, President Obama chose to stick with an older and cruder single-race classification, a holdover from racially ugly times.
Race-driven districting is the product of a bygone era and should be ended, and it should be replaced by a celebration that black politics has come of age in the United States.
The political class should abandon its racism-is-still-everywhere picture and admit that tea partiers are ordinary Americans, representative of the population as a whole.
Despite legitimate arguments to the contrary, it is important for Americans to answer the race question to ensure that we have accurate data about our nation.
The Obama administration should respond to a formal complaint in the wake of serious black-on-Asian violence at South Philadelphia High School.
New Orleans has elected its first white mayor since 1970 in a city where politics has long been racially divided.
In the case of Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder the Supreme Court declined to decide on a radical provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
In Massachusetts, where Republicans have long felt like outcasts, the atmosphere in the last few days has been nothing short of electrifying.
Is Harry Reid the Democrats' Trent Lott?
Are law schools discriminating in their admissions policies or just picking the most qualified candidates?
National Review
December 21, 2009
The proportional-representation systems that the Justice Department is considering will not remedy violations to the 1965 Voting Rights Act or erase race from American politics.
In Kinston, North Carolina, the Department of Justice interfered in election procedure based on a wrongful allegation of discrimination.
It is a sad and dangerous moment for race relations in American politics.
Presidential sermons will not make a whit of difference in educational outcomes.
Safe minority constituencies, in marginalizing black representatives, have become a brake on further racial progress.
Old mindsets die hard--all the more reason for the president to become the "post-racial" voice his campaign promised, even if a "post-racial" America remains largely an aspiration.
Most racial preferences--for example, in college admissions--are shrouded in secrecy and dishonesty.
The court demanded a serious assessment in future cases of the evidence presented in support of a race-conscious employment policy.
The Supreme Court on Monday punted on the most anticipated case of the year--but perhaps that was the wisest move.
In today's America, the costs of continuing to insist on race-based electoral arrangements are very high.
Is Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was designed to prevent disenfranchisement of minorities, still serving its purpose today?
The Supreme Court is expected to rule shortly on the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Barack Obama's election seemed to signal a fading away of identity politics, but he himself has made identity politics news again with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
American voters have turned a racial corner, and the law should reflect this change.
Civil rights groups are trying to get the court to force states to increase the number of safe Democratic districts.
AEI Online
September 15, 2008
Barack Obama's candidacy is one of many signs that the United States has turned a page.
Barack Obama's candidacy is one of many signs that the United States has turned a page.
Jeremiah Wright does not speak for mainstream black churches--and he has done them a gross disservice by claiming to do so.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is full of hateful, anti-American rhetoric, but his views are clearly not those of theIllinois senator.
Barack Obama, in turning his back on the world of segregated politics, has shown the way forward.
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