The Washington Post, February 14th, 1991
The polls show a sizable minority of African Americans opposing a Persian Gulf war that whites overwhelmingly support. This tells us little about the nature or causes of the war. But it says a lot about the troubled state of race relations in America today. Racial disharmony in America is not just a domestic matter. In the past quarter-century, America has lost a position of world leadership on race relations gained in the civil-rights revolution of the 1960s. Leaders on both sides of America's color divide have squandered the precious legacy of the brief moment when Selma meant as much as Det...
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