Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.