This is probably going to surprise just about everybody who's familiar with this weblog (including, well, me), but I think Thomas Sowell has a point here (via AtlanticBlog):

Blacks have, in effect, been adopted as mascots by many white liberals. Mascots serve to symbolize something for others but the actual well-being of the mascot himself is seldom a major concern. Blacks have long been used by the left to indict American society.

And which libs are guilty of that kind of callous, morally indefensible posturing? Well, let's just say they seem to represent about two percent of the population at the moment.

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