Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 10:25
“Bush changed the way millions of white Americans think about black public officials. This may turn out to the most positive legacy of his benighted Presidency.”
— Hendrik Hertzberg, “Condiment,” The New Yorker
Between this and the wonderful job that Bush has done expanding U.S. aid to Africa, I think I would exhaust all the nice things I could say about him. But that doesn’t mean I think Kanye was wrong when he said that Bush hates black people. Just that maybe he needed a couple more adjectives (“poor” and “American,” or maybe just “likely to vote Democratic”).
