On Tuesday afternoon, Republicans will vote to confirm Wilhelmina Marie Wright, a sitting member of the Minnesota state Supreme Court, to the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Just who is Ms. Wright? Writing a short entry for the UCLA Law Review in 1990 (page 18-19 of PDF), Ms. Wright brazenly asserted that, "[T]he practice of American racism is based on two principles: the sanctity of property and the belief in the hierarchy of races." She concludes as follows: The failure of today's racial discourse is its reliance on the notion that property is neutral, that the...