by Deroy Murdock

About the author: Deroy Murdock is a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia.

America’s so-called “black leaders” seem to see a bigot under every bed. “Everywhere we see clear racial fault lines which divide American society as much now as at any time in our past,” says [former] NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] Chairman Julian Bond.

“Hardly an aspect of American life has escaped the baneful touch of this awful thing called racism,” complains John Hope Franklin, chairman of President [Bill] Clinton’s racial advisory board. “Wherever you go, you are going to see this.” Ohio Democratic Rep. Louis Stokes simply declares: “Weary the victims of racism in this society.”

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