But you can't offer second best to people for whom second best is a bitter legacy and expect them to miss what you're up to. Which suggests that we in this fair community still don't get this race stuff. We are not helped, though, by black legislators such as St. Petersburg Republican Rudy Bradley waving his fist and saying that if the law school doesn't go to Tampa, he won't work to fund it. Surely Bradley wants to repair the ugly act of 30 years ago, when FAMU's law school was shut down by the Legislature just as the black crusade for civil rights picked up steam. Or perhaps he is more interested in seeing Rudy Bradley's name in the paper.
Progress comes in unexpected forms.
Tampa failed, but at least it tried. The Republicans in Tallahassee restored to FAMU the law school that was once so cruelly taken away, and that Democrats for years failed to restore. And a black politician earned himself a perverse equality by being as shortsighted and self-interested as a white one. We must be getting somewhere. St. Petersburg Times.