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Racism in America
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EDITORIAL
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2 / 1992 |
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Morton A. Kaplan
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The welcome and overwhelming defeat of David Duke in Louisiana largely resulted from the large black vote and white fear of economic reprisals against the state if he won. A respectable and charismatic political leader with the same message likely would have won handily. The liberal media have learned nothing since George Wallace ran for president in 1968.
I remember trying to persuade the New York Times to take a picture of the flags at the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1968. The paper did not have the faintest notion why a picture of the state and confederate flags flying high over the capitol while the American flag was at ground level and hidden from view by trees would injure Wallace. Nor did it understand that editorial denouncing him would only gain him votes if circulated among blue-collar Americans. Similarly, the New York Times did not ask where David Duke was during the Vietnam War. It was not sufficiently outraged by draft dodgers or flag burners to make arguments against either Wallace or Duke that were effective with Middle America.
Wallace was a racist and, like Duke, used racist code words. But he gained votes because, amid his lies and misinformation, he was telling middle Americans the truth on particular issues that were crucial to them, while the media and the liberal intelligentsia were lying to them about these same issues. The white steelworker who had sacrificed to buy a cottage in a neighborhood where the schools were good was being coerced into tolerating busing programs, which would create gang-ridden schools where the education his children would receive would deteriorate. The liberals who called the steelworker a racist were sending their children to private schools, or were moving to the suburbs to escape the same problem. Even the notable black columnist Carl Rowan, who was screaming racism at these parents, was sending his own children to private schools.
Do not misunderstand me. Something had to be done about schooling. Black parents, whose rights were every bit as important as those of white parents, were facing the same problems. But rather than telling the truth and attempting to negotiate an acceptable solution, the liberal elites, including the federal courts, were ramming through strong-arm solutions that were doing grave damage to legitimate parental expectations.
The same dishonesty attends the quota bills on jobs, one of which George Bush signed for political reasons. Again, do not misunderstand me. When Bush objected to the removal of the employer's right
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