They've been teaching some painful lessons on race these days in Tallahassee and St. Petersburg. And it doesn't matter if you're white or black. Consider poor Jeb Bush, if you're inclined to feel sorry for him, as he takes it on both shins, if not the butt, for what happened last week when two black lawmakers staged a sit-in in the lieutenant governor's office. Bush insisted he was talking about the reporters who camped out with Meek and Hill. My own suspicion is that he was talking about Meek and Hill.
Reporters are too popular a target.
We'll never know for sure. But this picture is way out of whack with the picture of Bush as a candidate when he all but came to black voters on hands and knees. After last week, those words smell worse than day-old fish on a dock. Bush has revealed himself to be a mere politician, not the idealist of that speech. This should be no shock, but the guy wooed black voters night and day.