Color Code

Bureaucrats and judges have turned the 1964 Civil Rights Act on its head, creating a system of preferences based on race and sex. Can we restore equality before the law?

FORTY years after Brown v. Board of Education, the civil-rights movement has strayed far from the color-blind principles of Martin Luther King Jr. Public outrage over preferential treatment for “protected minorities” has taken the place of guilt over segregation. Americans who supported desegregation and equal rights are astonished to find themselves governed by quotas, which were prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.