racial progress

Janell Ross with the Tennessean has a piece on the hardships suffered by African-Americans who are being encroached upon by nervous white people:

We're in trouble now. After maintaining a conspicuous silence as Nashville cracked down on downtown panhandlers and dialed back racial progress in a return to segregated schools, the city's liberals seem to have found their voice.

It’s been nearly a week since the Chamber of Commerce rolled back racial progress in the city by voting to resegregate schools. Oh wait, that was the school board that did that. I get the two confused. Anyway, there’s still been no word from any of the city’s white progressive leaders on this issue.

Bill Kristol, in his op-ed dismissing Obama's speech on race relations, said:

Throughout its existence, the Civil Rights Movement faced down insinuations that it deserved the persecution it got for nonviolent disobedience. It is one thing for movement participants to understand and to accept the risk of their actions of precipitating social change. It is quite another for the media to sit on the sidelines of a just cause and blame the participants for the abuse that was already latent and waiting for them.