Initially, this proposition might seem counterintuitive, I know. It becomes respectable for all manner of groups to define themselves by their racial and ethnic backgrounds. Thousands of pathetically ill people are freed to wander the streets and cause harm to the social order, to themselves, and to others.
American society is riven by a rancorous ongoing debate over racial preferences .
Welfare rolls fill up with single mothers. The plan fails, but its acceptance by the policy elite helps destigmatize the dole. An impressive record. Now comes Alexander Cockburn, writing in the N.Y. Press about the massacres of East Timorese by pro-Indonesian militias. Daniel Patrick Moynihan had a hand in that disaster as well.