There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.