The thing that sets me off about race is the insistence of those on the left that special preference must be given to chosen minorities. Leftists do not pursue these policies due to any altruistic motives. They pander to minorities in the cynical belief that by doing so they will garner the votes of those minorities during elections.
I get the feeling that much of what motivates Mr. Joyce has nothing to do with race, but with governmental insistence on meddling. We see quotas disguised as "affirmative action". We see white applicants for scholarships, university admission, and jobs being denied in favor of minorities whose qualifications may well be inferior. Universities call this method of discrimination "diversity". It appears that neither the leftist liberals in our government nor the leadership of minority groups has heeded the warning of Dr. Martin Luther King when he said, in comments addressing affirmative action, that it was wrong to "replace one form of discrimination with another".
I believe that the greatest "right" we can confer on our citizens is the right to compete, unencumbered by racial discrimination or racial quotas. Personally, I love seeing a black person become financially successful. (except for scum like Snoop Dog) Because in most cases, when a black person succeeds as a result of his own efforts, he ceases to believe the liberal lie that blacks have to be helped by government in order to achieve equality in the workplace. Once that happens, that person is no longer a liberal.