My Impromptus today touches on the explicit racialism in the matter of the Illinois Senate seat: Some people think that, if the voters elected a black man in 2004, the replacement today has to be a black man as well. A reader of ours quipped, “Well, if that’s true, why not give it to the guy who finished second that year?” (Ahem — that’d be Alan Keyes.)
A jest, yes — but the kind of jest that points up perfectly the grossness of American racialism as it is manifested today.