Racial tensions are rising in the wake of the NAACP labeling elements within the Tea Party as racist and an Agriculture Department official fired over racial comments that didn’t include the full context. So how damaged are race relations right now? What are the best ways to calm things down? We ask U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Co-Chair Abigail Thernstrom and get her reaction to allegations of a racial bias at the Justice Department in voting rights cases.
