Deroy Murdock

Racial harmony largely prevails in today’s America, argues Deroy Murdock in the following viewpoint. He contends that although bigotry still exists, the vast majority of Americans are tolerant and do not see race as a divisive and troublesome issue. An increase in black representatives chosen by white electorates, a marked decrease in anti-Semitism, and the growing number of interracial marriages all confirm America’s racial amity. Murdock is a cable television news commentator and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Murdock, how did the citizens of Jasper, Texas, respond after the bigoted and brutal murder of James Byrd Jr.?
2. Of the seventy allegedly antiblack church arsons in the 1990s that were investigated by the Department of Justice and USA Today...