Posted by
Deadpan on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:19:06 PM
One of the best answers to Obama's call for yet more conversation on race is
this one, by James Lewis. The failure of the left in general and of African American leaders since Martin Luther King, in particularly, has been to assume that what equal rights means is that you get everything you want, i. e. that government has the duty to make everybody happy. It's been shown over and over than happiness doesn't necessarily correlate with material prosperity, but to listen to black leaders and politicians you'd think so. You might get a job, but it doesn't mean you'll enjoy it, or that it will pay you what you think you're worth.
I've thought often that blacks seem to have a warped idea of what it's like to be white in America.