America, still guilty
How stupid can Americans—particularly liberal Christian Americans—be? Plenty stupid. Alan Wall at vdare highlights the stupidity of Arkansas Republican governor Mike Huckabee, who has been parading the notion that Hispanic immigration offers America a “Second Chance” to make up for its past bad treatment of blacks.
Of course, the idea that the need to compensate for historic discrimination against blacks should govern our relations with other nonwhite groups is not new. As I wrote in The Path to National Suicide, the 1965 Immigration Reform Act was a “civil rights bill applied to the world at large.” David Frum in a letter to me in the mid 1990s echoed the attitude of the 1965 reformers, saying that America’s past history of racial discrimination required us to keep our borders open to non-Westerners. But it is nevertheless incredible that after decades in which conservatives have seen the damage done to our society by white racial guilt, a supposedly conservative politician wants to make white racial guilt an explicit organizing principle of our society.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at 09:31 AM
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