When apologies aren't due

Egad. Could we actually owe Matthew Hale, the prominent white supremacist windbag, an apology? No way. I admit the thought crossed my mind for a nanosecond upon hearing a disgruntled and deranged Chicago man with no apparent ties to Hale was the likely killer of a federal judge's husband and mother. Until convincing evidence linked Bart Allan Ross to the killings, my suspicions locked like a laser beam onto Hale and the other haters in his carnival of bigotry formerly named World Church of the Creator, based in East Peoria, Ill.

In fact, as much as such racial extremists say they organize around love for their group, it is hatred for others that really puts the spice in their stew. When Malcolm X realized that, he turned away from Black Nationalism to Orthodox Islam, a religion of all races.

Part of the mythology of Malcolm X, and not at all demonstrably true. Malcolm X did make some comments after his trip to east Africa and Saudi Arabia circa 1964 that had a certain moderate tone when compared to the fiery, hate-filled rhetoric he became famous for in previous years. But in the few months that were left to him before his assasssination after he returned from his foreign travels, he made numerous public statements that were just as inflammatory as anything he had said before he went abroad. It is simply not demonstrably true that Malcolm X was about to "turn away from black nationalism," any more than it has ever been provably true that Kennedy would have pulled out of Viet Nam in 1964.

Just two in a long line of self-perpetuating liberal myths.

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