Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Happy Birthday National Review

The National Review (which bills itself as "America’s premier magazine and web site for reaching Republican/Conservative opinion leaders who affect and shape policy on a wide range of issues") is celebrating a very special birthday: 50 Years!

By way of congratulations let's trot out a quote from 1960
In the Deep South the Negroes are, by comparison with the whites, retarded. . . . Leadership in the South, then, quite properly, rests in white hands. Upon the white population this fact imposes moral obligations of paternalism, patience, protection, devotion, sacrifice."
Though I'm tempted to say that not much has changed in 40 years that would be unfair. American conservatives have come a very long way and this must be acknowledged.

For example, if this quote appeared today it quite obviously would be modifed to read: "...the people who are not white are, by comparison with the whites, retarded. . . . Leadership, then, quite properly, rests in white hands. Upon the white population this fact imposes moral obligations of paternalism, patience, protection, devotion, sacrifice."

Fie on you (and you know who you are) who refuse to see how much more inclusive conservatives have become.