Well, at any rate, on this 'Mr. Lott, When-Exactly-Did-You-Stop-Lynching-Blacks?' news conference Friday, I offer my two cents:
Great piece JohnHuang2. It made me think of this David Horowitz piece.
***…….There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists-and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to a non-left audience. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades in the left refer to themselves and their pasts in similar contexts today. But they are lying. (And when they defend racial preferences now-a principle they denounced as "racist" then-even they must know it).
The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity-often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life.
Why, for example, if you were one of them, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role in humanity's vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that you were certain would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth that they could not "understand" and that would hold them back?*** Excerpted from Hillary Clinton and the Racial Left - David Horowitz
And thanks for posting that excellent -- and piercingly truthful -- Horowitz quote.