Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin… Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.”

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.