I’m catching a little more of the Rosa Parks funeral on CSPAN right now while I am supposed to be meeting deadlines. I’m trying to get beyond Louis Farakhan prominently in the audience, sitting next to Al Sharpton (his name always should be followed by “Remember Freddie’s Fashion Mart?”). I’m trying to get beyond Nancy Pelosi. Hillary Clinton. John Kerry. But then I hear John Kerry do a commercial for affirmative action, tying a current unjust public policy to her quite just bus action. A veiled reference to women having underclass issues here. A veiled reference to blacks who were shut out from voting (OR I MIGHT BE PRESIDENT!–I’m adding this) there. Bill Clinton had to cut out early to make sure New Yorkers get health care….maybe I need to watch the whole thing, but what I have seen has felt a little….Wellstone funeral-like.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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