Political opposition to the practice of racial profiling is mounting, President Clinton has it "morally indefensible" and has ordered federal law enforcement officials to collect 8 information on the race and sex of people they stop. ...
However, it is astonishing that people do not believe that the political and social dynamics that purport to color blindness would create a new caste system- the one all Americans live in today. ... The Voting Rights Act of 1965, an arguably more significant achievement, rendered illegal numerous discriminatory barriers to effective political participation by African-Americans and mandated federal review of all new voting regulations so that it would be possible to determine whether their use would perpetuate voting discrimination. ... A new race-neutral language was developed to appeal to old...
