MICHAEL MORRIS: Race as the magic potion for superstitious progressives
Political economist’s argument that black voters are incapable of grasping data about their environment is off the mark
14 March 2021 - 17:36
We probably don’t know enough about Meghan Markle’s claim that someone in the House of Windsor fretted about the skin colour of a potential future princeling to say very much, other than that any such anxiety advertises a mental shortfall that’s almost comical.
To imagine there’s any meaning in the difference between pallid or dusky is on a par with tolerating the notion that the moon is conceivably made of green cheese...
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