Judge me not for the content of my character-but the color of my skin....
The New Republic points out that there is another sign that the Bush administration has been seduced by the central principle of the racialist Left: Race trumps everything. Why else would Bush stack the spokesmen at his Waco conference with minorities and have them get up and assert views at great variance with the norm of their racial community? The Bushies must at some level assume that Americans as a whole have accepted this view-that the messenger and not the message are what counts. It is somewhat reminiscent of UC presidents lamenting the possibility that poor Asian and white students could take the spots that should go to middle-class Latinos and blacks if there was any justice in the world....