Sebastian wonders if Hillary Clinton’s recent questionable remarks about her success with white voters will earn her the kind of fast-track out of Washington that a Republican would get for saying such a thing:

I’m honestly surprised if any candidate for President, of either party, can get away with saying something quite that baldly and get [...]

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Which probably explains why I’ve been talking about it so much recently. At Sadly, No Gavin M. expresses something that’s always bugged me about the poor-me tales of conservative oppression: they seem to think that freedom of speech includes the requirement that we take their speech seriously.

They don’t want their grievances eased or hurts [...]

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Honest Partisan highlights something I was surprised to discover in my own reading recently:

For everyone who claims that their grandparents and great-grandparents did just fine when they got off the boat without any affirmative action, or whatever, let’s bust this myth now. The modern predominantly white American middle class is a product of government [...]

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This is a half-developed (half-baked?) post published far too early in the morning, so forgive me if I’m a little incoherent.
Most objections to what we call “black issues” or “race issues” in American politics are expressed in terms of fairness and reverse-racism. Affirmative action programs aren’t fair because they continue to privilege some groups over [...]

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Having read it, I think I am going to go turn my brain off for a little while. After a diatribe about what constitutes a “nigger,” the blogger “Instapunk” says:

You see, you’ve just given life to the suspicion that black people in America are, and have long been, a fifth column — unanimously hating [...]

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