"The two-party system is breaking down into a race system."

“Eye of the Storm, Crispin Startwell's blog, hosted on blogs.com.”

“Crispinsartwell.com, column archives and other writings.”

“I think American white conservatives and white liberals are, by and large, both racist. But the liberals believe they’re not racists—in fact, they believe in nothing else with so much commitment. They insist they don't have a racist bone in their bodies; they don't even see race; they were over that a long time ago.”

“The entrapment of black voters in the Democratic party has been a disaster, and it’s one of the reasons that progress on has been infinitesimal or at best incremental since the.”

“There's no reason for Republicans to waste any time on black voters; there are no votes there under any conditions. Rand Paul went to Ferguson and Baltimore to talk racial healing: no one cared or even noticed.”

“Since Jesse Jackson ran for president, and perhaps up until the movement, the Democratic Party has dominated and used black leadership.”