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June 29, 2002
I'm not your fucking spritz-head girlfriend
Got yelled at once for teaching one of my co-workers to say that, with hand on hip and matching neck action. The Man wants to keep the aZian sistas down. Little does he know; they scare me sometimes.
the daily flotsam links to an editorial at Opinion Journal hailing the recent Supreme Court decision on school vouchers. The headline?
Vouchers Have Overcome
Free at last, private school choice is free at last.
The decision is compared to Brown v. Board of Education, which I mentioned yesterday.
The editorial fails to mention the NAACP, who came out against the vouchers decision. If you don't know why I mention them in this context, you're a special needs child. Fuck away off.
The editorial fails to mention Thurgood Marshall, who argued that little case in 1954, but does include a quote from his successor to the court, Clarence Thomas.
And for some reason, they fail to repost their original editorial from 1954 praising Brown v. Board of Education
I mean, they must have praised it at the time, correct? Since they're such good friends to us colored folk and all.
"BACK OF THE BUS," AND ATTACK BY INNUENDO: Slate, which I usually much like, slips up badly with its culturebox headline "Conservatives tell Cornel West to go to the back of the bus".
[. . .] I do know that the article gives no evidence that the conservatives' actions had anything to do with Cornel West's race, the innuendo powerfully conveyed by the statement that someone is telling a black academic "to go to the back of the bus." The headline -- which gets readers into the story, is sometimes the only thing that people who just skim the table of contents carry away about the story ("Wow, there are charges of racism being leveled at conservatives who are persecuting Cornel West"), and often provides the frame through which the story is used -- creates an unmistakable implication that Cornel West is being persecuted because of his race. The story doesn't support this accusation, perhaps because there's no evidence to support it, but the unfounded charge lingers.
I look forward to the good people at Volokh Conspiracy condemning the Wall Street Journal for suggesting the vouchers decision. . .
On second thought, no I don't. Because it's so not going to happen.
Posted by Aaron at June 29, 2002 01:55 PM