David Horowitz
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2003

Everybody knows – but no one wants to say – that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students – mainly African Amerian and Hispanic – are denied a shot at the American dream.

It is the party of race preferences which separate American citizens on the basis of skin color, providing privileges to a handful of ethnic and racial groups in a nation of nearly a thousand. The Democratic Party has shown that it will go to the wall to preserve the racist laws that enforce these preferences, and to defend the racist school systems that destroy the lives of millions of children every year.

On the other side of the aisle, the Republican Party has shown itself to be tongue-tied and lame-brained when it comes to opposing this racist stain on American life. Republicans rarely mention the millions of young victims claimed by the Democrats' racist school policies every year. They are too cowardly to openly challenge race preferences that constitute a true American apartheid.

Consequently, for nearly a decade it has been left to one man and those he inspires to take on these injustices, and he is doing so again in the upcoming California recall election.

Ward Connerly has placed Proposition 54 – the Racial Privacy Initiative – on the October California ballot. The new law would bar the government from inquiring into a citizen's racial identity. The Constitution does not mention race or use the words "black" and "white" to describe its citizens. The census was divised by the founders to set the number of congressional districts, not to balkanize America into racial categories. Democrats have turned it into a system to define Americans by skin color.

Every Democrat legislator and every so-called "liberal" spokesperson is opposed to Connerly's proposition because it would threaten their apartheid programs. The time has come to challenge this system and set Americans – particularly African and Hispanic Americans, who are its prime victims – free.

David Horowitz is a nationally known author, lifelong civil rights activist and founder of the New Left movement in the 1960s. His autobiography, "Radical Son," chronicles his odyssey from radical activism to the current positions he holds.

He has penned numerous other books including "The Politics of Bad Faith," "The Art of Political War" and his latest book, "Uncivil Wars," which chronicles his crusade against intolerance and racial McCarthyism on college campuses last spring.

Since 1988 he has served as president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a vehicle group for his campaigns and his online newsmagazine, FrontPageMag.com.

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