I was asked by National Review Online last week for commentary on the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 “March on Washington” and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s culminating “I Have a Dream” speech there.  Here they are. Keeping Things in Perspective This Week:  So, how much of what Dr. King was asking for 50 years ago has been delivered? Well, to help put things in perspective, here is the paragraph in his “I Have a Dream” speech where he spells out his movement’s agenda most specifically: Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. …

In light of this week’s dubious court decision on New York City’s police department and racial profiling, it’s worth noting that some members of Congress are reintroducing that hardy (but never passed) perennial, the “End Racial Profiling Act,” which purportedly aims to end racial profiling by law-enforcement officers. This time around, the sponsors are trying to tie it in with, naturally, Trayvon Martin — even though the bill has nothing to do with the George Zimmerman case, since whatever you think of George Zimmerman and whatever he did, he is not a law-enforcement officer. In my statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the bill last …

Here’s an article that Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation and I wrote for National Review Online about the new voting-rights lawsuits that Attorney General Eric Holder has promised: The Washington Post reports that Eric Holder plans to file voting-rights challenges not only against Texas, which the DOJ did last month, but against a number of other states, too. These challenges are part of a crusade to, as Holder says, “use every tool” at the Obama administration’s disposal to continue federal oversight of the states in this area, despite the Supreme Court’s decision last month in Shelby County v. …

If we really want to diminish racial disparities in crime (which leads to racial profiling), If we really want to diminish racial disparities in education (which leads to university admission preferences), If we really want to diminish racial disparities in all kinds of other areas (income, wealth, employment, school discipline, you name it), If we really want to diminish all the racial disparities that, like it or not, make it hard to get rid of the remaining prejudice in this country – Then the single most important thing we can do is lower the out-of-wedlock rate for African Americans, which …

Here are a few thoughts on the President’s impromptu remarks on Friday, in which he helpfully (?) offered his thoughts on African Americans’ response to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. 1. You can’t claim to be having a serious discussion about race, crime, and African American young men without mentioning — not one word — that 72 percent of African Americans now are born out of wedlock. That’s where the “soul searching” he calls for is most needed, not on introspection about “bias.”  Growing up in a home without a father ties in with any social pathology you care …

I am not someone who has followed State of Florida v. George Zimmerman with rapt, 24/7 attention, or even 8/5 attention.  But it was easy for me to predict to a friend who asked me last Friday that there would be an acquittal.  How could a jury possibly find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, after all, when the state’s own witnesses seemed to help the defendant’s case as much as the prosecution’s? The saga had many villains and few heroes.  The foremost villains were the media — for more on that, see Linda Chavez’s pre-verdict column here – and the state …