White supremacy rally
CreditL Salon

When I look at trends what I care about is objectively verifiable data; unfiltered by religious or political considerations. And one of the major trends I have followed and have been actively involved in has been racial equality. What I care about and what I write about when I speak about race is the presence or absence of wellbeing both individually, and socially. Not only is it a matter of fairness, history shows racial equality correlates strongly with social wellbeing. Not only is it a matter of fairness, history shows racial equality is crucial to social wellbeing. This issue has been one of the major threads of my life. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the Civil Rights movement; in the 1970s, as the Special Assistant to Admiral Elmo Zumalt, I was part of the small group that changed the American military from the elitist conscription model of all previous 20th century wars, into an all-volunteer meritocracy in which gender, race, and religion were not determinants. […]