There is also a disconnect between the high moral tone of the Civil Rights Movement, which opened political doors to blacks, and the dismal standards of behavior on display here.
The Civil Rights leaders of fifty years ago were supposed to be moral fuglemen, leading us upward to new heights of justice and equality. If the power-holders they ushered in are, in fact, just another gang of sleazy pols taking thick brown envelopes from property developers, was our journey really necessary? How is it moral progress to pass from “We shall overcome!” to: “Hey, your people looted the public fisc, now it’s our turn”?
