Wow, Victor Davis Hanson is NAILING it on the race industry…
Victimization for generations has proven lucrative, precisely by allowing self-appointed leaders to advance their careers through doctrinaire “they did it” complaints. The script is now old indeed: Blame the pathologies of the underclass that hamper economic progress — inordinate drug usage, illegitimacy, crime, or dismal graduation rates — on the racism of those with “power.” “The Man” can find penitence only through perpetual apologies and the proper channeling of plentiful lucre.
and, near the end… discussing the new “morality” of electing the first black president…
Quit the smug moralizing that we have somehow proved to the world and ourselves that we are now finally worthy and deserving of adulation — as if wisdom and morality were always only an easy punch of the ballot away.
What a great article… I highly suggest the whole thing if you have time.
Win One For the Messiah! by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.