by Dinesh D'Souza

About the author: Dinesh D'Souza is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and a John M. Olin Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute are conservative think tanks devoted to social research.

Two Los Angeles police officers were cruising the city's highways when they saw a black man who looked as if he might be a drug dealer. So they pulled over his car, only to discover that their suspect was Christopher Darden, coprosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial.

The cops cheerfully waved Darden on, but he was not amused. Speaking at a recent forum in San Francisco, Darden said he found such incidents "demeaning" and "humiliating," and he accused the police of routinely stopping black men in the belief that they...