Over at The Reaction, Heraclitus has a post up responding to a column at Townhall, a prominent conservative website, by Burt Prelutsky, who addresses race in America today and determines that blacks (and liberals) are to blame, not whites. Indeed, Prelutsky makes this utterly unfounded and irresponsible remark: “There is such a thing as white prejudice. No doubt about it. But it has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with character, culture and values.” Huh? There’s no white racism?
Anyway, Prelutsky’s argument is all quite racist itself, and this is what it comes down to:
Burt puts up the necessary initial pretence of being concerned about the conditions of black people in America. But all of his criticisms are directed at the ways in which they don’t conform to the arbitrary norms of mainstream white America — he doesn’t like the music they listen to, the way they dress, the way they talk.
Does Prelutsky represent all conservatives? Surely not. But there are surely some who do think like he does, who do blame blacks for the ills of society. How else does he have a forum like Townhall?
You can read the full post here.