29 June 2009

You can always count on Emily Bazelon…

[Steve Sailer] @ 10:37 pm [Email author] [Email this article]  [Print this article] [Print this article]
to be both boring and revealing at the same time. In Slate today, Bazelon writes:

Lead plaintiff Frank Ricci, on the other hand, framed his victory in terms that evoke America, the land of opportunity: “If you work hard, you can succeed in America, and all of these guys worked hard,” he said on the steps of New Haven’s federal courthouse. True. But only part of a larger truth. And in historical terms, a strange sort of rhetoric to hear a white person laying claim to.

Read that twice.