Race: Democrats erect barriers for minorities

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray took the stage at Tacoma’s Martin Luther King Day celebration (TNT, 1-19), and like the patent medicine salesmen of old, offered up the same old snake oil as a panacea for the ills facing minority youth: “Too often young people of color face systematic racially motivated barriers to getting ahead . . .”.

Murray is correct: Young people of color do face barriers to getting ahead. Most significant are the barriers erected by the dependency and identity politics of the modern Democratic Party.

This story was originally published January 19, 2016 at 12:50 PM with the headline "Race: Democrats erect barriers for minorities."