It’s become something of a tradition for me to re-post this essay on MLK day, given that it was first written and published back in 1996 in response to an essay in the University of Denver’s Clarion newspaper that laid out, unwittingly I suspect (but in the clear language of the multiculturalist’s faux-emotionalist assault on individual sovereignty and its elevation of social Balkinazation as a matter of civic pride and,

Brunch protests. LGBT “white space” protests. Burning minority-owned businesses. An administration populated with the black student extras from The Strawberry Statement… Yeah: let the racial healing continue! When Obama was nominated I wrote that should he be elected he’d set race relations back 50 years — though I certainly wished he’d fail. He hasn’t. We’re living in the “benighted States of America” Rabbit, Redux’s Skeeter railed against — only it’s