Wednesday, March 4, 2009

culture blurb....

The only sure way to reduce victimary claims is to provide exemplary demonstrations of their invalidity. It is in this context that Obama’s election can be understood as "transformative." Obama’s accession to the presidency will not put an end to demands for racial or ethnic preferences, but it weakens the credibility of such demands, leaving the intellectual classes less obsessed by White Guilt and potentially more open to a constructive assessment of what constitutes normality.