What I’m reading for MLK Day: John McWhorter’s Winning the Race : Beyond the Crisis in Black America.

Because the race hustlers have failed. Becase the culture of victimhood has failed. Because, as McWhorter puts it, “anyone purporting to have a valuable message to black America [indeed, all America] whose message’ is basically that nothing will change without a revolution that could never occur has nothing to offer us but the passing and idle pleasures of payback fantasies and stirring rhetorical formulas.”

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Related holiday reading:

John Fund on the civil rights battle over school choice.

Erik Rush lambastes “Belafarrakhanics.”

Jim Hoft pays tribute.