Crying racism whenever there is a legitimate policy dispute is an old, tired, and increasingly ineffective tactic. The Congressional Black Caucus would have us believe that although virulent racism is now subterranean, it’s just as dangerous and pervasive as it was 50 years ago and surfaces whenever liberals try to do good.

But more and more Americans refuse to be cowed into guilty submission by this maneuver. A majority of Americans were born after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Segregation and de jure racial discrimination are not part of their experience. Nor do they feel responsibility for it.