Two Instapundit Stories That Would Have Been Clearer With The Word "Black"
02/28/2014
Two Instapundit posts (here and here)
- 21ST CENTURY RACISM: CNN’s Don Lemon: “You Weigh How Much You Should Criticize The President Because He’s Black.”
- CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: California Dems block expulsion of legislator convicted of 8 felonies.
Don Lemon is black; he’s not holding back on the President out of fear of being called racist, but out of racial loyalty.
State Senator Rod Wright is also black, and represents a California district that’s 11 percent white.
Might this have something to do with the culture of corruption visible in the Democratic Party? It might. USA Today wrote in 2009 that "The challenge of dealing with minority officials who run afoul of the law is a pre-eminently Democratic problem … " For more one this see my Uninvestigative Journalism — The MainStream Media And Minority Politicians,also from 2009.