The New York Times, November 2, 2011 by Ian Haney-López
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/opinion/a-new-way-to-achieve-civil-rights.html
Today’s narrow focus on isolated victims, rightly decried by Mr. Ford, does not reflect a failure of vision by civil rights leaders. Instead, it stems from four decades of efforts by conservative judges and justices (reflecting the preferences of the politicians who appointed them) to restrictively construe civil rights laws to ensure that they challenge discrimination barely at all.