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This guy is a liberal, but he wrote a brutally honest article yesterday.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/07/american-tinderbox/

Here’s some excerpts....

The United States badly needs a workable and affordable post-Great Society approach to the inner cities. Unfortunately, we don’t have this yet and it is quite possible that we will face some testing times as a result.

But there is another trend that bears watching. There are a great many angry and frustrated people in this country who have lost faith in their national leaders and they aren’t Black. They are, in fact, white.

Whites as well as Blacks have lost faith in the government and the intellectual and cultural elites. Some whites resent what they see as excessive privilege for Blacks reflected in affirmative action. Many believe that the federal government and the (largely white) upper middle class establishment wants to marginalize the traditional white majority in the US through a combination of deliberate immigration policy aimed at reducing white preponderance in the population and by favoring immigrants and non-whites for education and employment.

.....For people who feel this way, the reluctance of the mainstream media to cover racial flash mobs is sinister and disturbing. If there were no racial dimension to these mobs they would surely receive much greater publicity and there would be much stroking of chins and learned talk about what the phenomenon meant.

Its really worth the read.

This guy is a liberal, but he wrote a brutally honest article yesterday.

I think he's more of a classical liberal, i.e. a conservative these days. He wants all the useless nonsense from the progressives dumped. I believe he's a democrat like Victor Davis Hanson.

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Its really worth the read.

That's why I linked it in comment# 1.

Re your linked article in The American Interest, the liberals are getting it stuck to them by commenters down the page ..... the writer and his early commenters are libs interested in keeping the Great Society political calculus going as far as possible, while conceding that demographic change is making this less likely.

Other commenters cannot find their brooms fast enough to suit them. I would wager most of them are potential and quite likely future Palin/Bachmann/Cain supporters, once the campaign gets underway.

The next conservative President will have the very unenviable task of cleaning the Augean Stables left behind by FDR, LBJ, Slick Willie, and Obozo. It's going to be a back-breaker, and the media will be carping all the way.

It's interesting that the writer of your linked article does not blink at, but quickly acknowledges, liberal media bias in handling stories like this one -- while asserting good motives (such as were on display in the Matthew Shepard case? Oh, please!).