extreme racial jerry man derring was a result of a lawful justice department imposing its own agenda on states. the justice department along with the civil rights community assumed in a racially fair society there would be proportional representation not only on legislative bodies but also on places of employment, schools, every other corner of american life. and, yet, statistical disparities between groups are evident everywhere. the standard of proportionality and fact rests on a profound misconception on the natural distribution of racial and ethnic groups across the