Introduction

Heather McDonald is a New York Times Best Laying Author and fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Her new book, When Race Trims Merit, explores what happens when race trims merit in Western society. She says every institution that does not have a proportional representation of blacks - which would be 13% based on the American population - is deemed presumptively per se racist. "The sledgehammer that's being taken to Western civilization is driven overwhelmingly by the race issue"