Correction!
Today remains Monday, 20 October 2008.
My apologies: I meant to hit "Save" and instead hit "Publish". Following is complete column.
From yesterday’s Meet the Press interview with Colin Powell:
MR. BROKAW: “And you are fully aware that there will be some--how many, no one can say for sure--but there will be some who will say this is an African-American, distinguished American, supporting another African-American because of race.”
Can one imagine (save perhaps on the sort of really fine acid one can’t seem to find anymore) Brokaw asking Rudy Giuliani: And you are fully aware that there will be some--how many, no one can say for sure--but there will be some who will say this is a white-American, distinguished American, supporting another white-American because of race?
That Brokaw felt the need to allow Powell to address that question, which would never be put to Caucasian candidates, is a fine exemplar of the extent of white racism in America: the widespread assumption that persons of color, like Jews, are thuggish and clannish, favouring their own, unlike the even-handed and big-hearted Anglo-Saxons.
My apologies: I meant to hit "Save" and instead hit "Publish". Following is complete column.
From yesterday’s Meet the Press interview with Colin Powell:
MR. BROKAW: “And you are fully aware that there will be some--how many, no one can say for sure--but there will be some who will say this is an African-American, distinguished American, supporting another African-American because of race.”
Can one imagine (save perhaps on the sort of really fine acid one can’t seem to find anymore) Brokaw asking Rudy Giuliani: And you are fully aware that there will be some--how many, no one can say for sure--but there will be some who will say this is a white-American, distinguished American, supporting another white-American because of race?
That Brokaw felt the need to allow Powell to address that question, which would never be put to Caucasian candidates, is a fine exemplar of the extent of white racism in America: the widespread assumption that persons of color, like Jews, are thuggish and clannish, favouring their own, unlike the even-handed and big-hearted Anglo-Saxons.
posted by HH at 8:47 AM
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