Plus: How Economist Thomas Sowell’s Warning About Combating Racial Disparities Came True
June 22 2021
Good morning from Washington, where the left is waving away public concern with the spread of critical race theory. Jarrett Stepman isn’t having any of it. The nation’s attorney general should be fair-minded in ensuring clean elections, Hans von Spakovsky writes. On the podcast, Rachel del Guidice has good news for consumers who want to support brands that don’t disparage their values. Plus: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell’s questioning of black leaders’ priorities, and Deroy Murdock on President Biden’s reluctance to put a stop to human trafficking. On this date in 1945, U.S. forces defeat the last major pockets of Japanese resistance on Okinawa Island to end, after nearly three months, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.
When asked about debates over critical race theory taking place at school board meetings, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, calls it a “right-wing conspiracy” made up by Republicans.
Besides thinking civil rights activists were doing a poor job of picking their battles, Sowell became increasingly bothered by the way black leaders seemed much too concerned with white approval.
Seven years after the Shelby County decision and passage of state election laws that Garland finds so restrictive, 66.8% of voting-age citizens voted—just short of the all-time turnout record set in 1992.
“Countless friends and family members could have been saved, had it not been for the deception of the Chinese Communist Party,” writes House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
“Biden’s open-border policies have produced the largest human-trafficking operation since the international slave trade,” says Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
The reality is that police officers rarely are able to arrive fast enough to protect potential victims before they would be able to protect themselves if they were armed.
