Back to the Streets

Since that time, pickets have marched in front of the Red Apple, trying to shut it down. Leading the effort is one Sonny Carson, a Sixties relic who was once convicted of kidnapping and who received $65,000 from David Dinkins last November for a get-out-the-vote effort in Dinkins’s mayoral campaign.

It would be hard to find a more blatant example of racism. Carson has told neighborhood blacks not to “Shop with people who don’t look like us.” The demonstrators outside have regularly shouted “Chink!” at the storekeepers. Yet for slow-witted New York liberals, this has all been difficult to comprehend.

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William Tucker

Mr. Tucker is author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey.

Since that time, pickets have marched in front of the Red Apple, trying to shut it down. Leading the effort is one Sonny Carson, a Sixties relic who was once convicted of kidnapping and who received $65,000 from David Dinkins last November for a get-out-the-vote effort in Dinkins’s mayoral campaign.

It would be hard to find a more blatant example of racism. Carson has told neighborhood blacks not to “Shop with people who don’t look like us.” The demonstrators outside have regularly shouted “Chink!” at the storekeepers. Yet for slow-witted New York liberals, this has all been difficult to comprehend.