Honor Miracle of Progress on Race

The racial progress in this nation since the mid-1960s has been nothing short of miraculous. In the mid-1960s, blacks were beaten, attacked by dogs, smashed with firehouse spray for demonstrating for equal rights.

This country is a showcase for racial progress and to say otherwise is deeply insulting to this great nation and to history and mocks the blood shed for this progress. The people who say we have not changed in fifty years should be ashamed, so writes Ben Stein in The American Spectator.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, and lawyer, who served as a speechwriter in the Nixon administration as the Watergate scandal unfolded. He began his unlikely road to stardom when director John Hughes cast him as the numbingly dull economics teacher in the urban comedy, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Read more reports from Ben Stein — Click Here Now.