In 2013, this op-Ed by Cohen (who wrote last week that the movie 12 Years A Slave affirmed to him that slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks. And that George Zimmerman was justified to be suspicious of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. Martins hoodie, Cohen wrote, was a uniform we all recognize.) is so wrong and laughable in so many unfortunate ways, Officially the States’ Rights Democratic Party, they were breakaway Democrats whose primary issue was racial segregation. In its cause, they ran their own presidential candidate, Strom Thurmond, and almost cost Harry Truman the 1948 election. They didn’t care. Their objective was not to win — although that would have been nice — but to retain institutional, legal racism. They saw a way of life under attack and they feared its loss. Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all. What conventional bubble does he live on?
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:41:47 +0000
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