Author Urges End to 250 Years of Race-Based Policy, Calls for Individual Opportunity
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 14
Author Urges End to 250 Years of Race-Based Policy, Calls for Individual Opportunity
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 14
Summary
An opinion writer used America’s 250th anniversary to argue that government has spent 250 years using race to divide Americans and should stop centering policy on racial categories.
The piece says the deeper damage to communities came not only from older abuses like redlining but from post-1960s government programs that produced symbolism and bureaucracy rather than real opportunity.
Chicago’s South Side anchors the argument: the author says crisis spending arrives after violence or failure, while investment in children before crisis rarely gets the same urgency.
A nearly completed community center is presented as the alternative model—backing individual talent and development one child at a time instead of designing programs around race.
The broader call is to redirect a fraction of the money and energy spent marking the past 250 years toward expanding individual opportunity for the next 250.