When I was a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, I worked on heinous cases where innocent people were abused because of their skin color. Racism is a sin against God’s own notion that we’re all equal and created in his image. It’s a genuine problem. Only the ignorant or ignoble deny this.

Yet racism does not reside in every heart, it cannot be found around every corner, and it has unquestionably lessened dramatically as America found its footing of fairness following the Civil War of the 1860s and the Civil Rights reforms of the 1960s. Only the ignorant or ignoble will deny that.

Sadly, Oberlin College’s actions aren’t unique. Their accomplices across America, and in grimy corners of the internet, regularly brandish false allegations of racism. Worse yet, they do it to punish enemies and amass political power. This despicably dishonors heroes like Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King.