brings great perspective, balance and reflective authority to a summation of the Trent Lott debacle, and issues this call:

“Let us not put ointment on the wound of race, let us cut it out of the body politic like the cancer that it is. That will require deregulating race, getting the government out of the race business altogether, not asking American citizens the odious question about their ancestry, because it should be no more relevant to the government than one’s religion — and that question is forbidden. “The Racial Privacy Initiative,” to be soon considered by the voters of California, is a critical step in that direction. The president could also issue an Executive Order eliminating those silly little race boxes from government forms; and he could help to eliminate the race question from the Census.

America does not need another generation of “racial healing” programs. America needs to consign race to the ash heap of history where it rightfully belongs.”

What a fine man.

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