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Sailer: ‘The secret history of the 1990s’

April 28, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

He writes:

…the most true and interesting things anybody can say about the Rodney King riot are

A) that it was a shameful tantrum by African-Americans (which of course few aesthetic writers dependent upon grants would dare say), and

B) that blacks actually were embarrassed enough by it to slowly start behaving better.

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Normally, Sailer is acutely observant and piercingly accurate, but, regarding “B”, all I can say is:

Katrina, anyone?

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