“Bush’s effort [on affirmative action] is so special that this may very well be the first Martin Luther King. Jr. birthday during which the loudest celebrations come not from black churches and integrated downtown breakfasts but from the hallways of segregated suburbia to the romantic enclaves of the Confederacy. Finally for them, this is the day to shout ”We Have Overcome.” This is the day that a lot of God’s white people – Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics – are holding hands and singing in the words of their new spiritual, ‘Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!'” – Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe today. (Via Winderkinder.)
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