Mark Steyn, as usual, is a must read. “C’mon over, baby, a whole shakin’ o’ Lott goin’ on,” it begins, and then gets better. We have Lott to thank, he says (he doesn’t say, “We have a Lott to be thankful for”; I did), for the fact that conversation is now centered on what the Republican Party’s position should be on … segregation.
And also as usual, when he gets serious he scores some real zingers. For example:
For the best part of two centuries, the Democrats have been the party of race: In the 19th century, they were for slavery; in the 20th, for segregation; in the 21st, for the neo-segregation of “affirmative action,” “hate crimes” and all the other paraphernalia of the modish trickle-down apartheid determined to make racial categorization a permanent feature of the American landscape.
Oh, just read the whole thing.
