Racial Profiling is Everyone’s Business

When I was in my mid-20s, I decided to spend a spring weekend in the Big Apple. I was a young Latino man with shoulder length hair. I wore my hair in a bright red bandana (which I still own). At the time, my only earthly possession was a fairly new red sports car with...

When Racism Applies

Tennessee lawmaker Stacey Campfield, one of Knoxville’s white state representatives, has shown, once again, that whites do not understand racism. Campfield, who last month compared the Black Legislative Caucus to the KKK, recently clarified his statement to...

Bill Bennett’s Remark Criticized as Racist

Former Reagan administration education secretary Bill Bennett refused to back down from comments widely criticized as racist. Bennett, a popular social commentator with the religious right, questioned accuracy of a study that suggested legal abortion had reduced the...