It seems clear,to me at least, that the best argument for the existence of institutional racism in this country, is now on display in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.
The racial epithets and Jim Crow segregation of the distant past are now shown, I believe, to pale in significance when compared with the centuries of economic neglect that eroded the very foundations of our so-called civilization.
Hurricane Katrina, and a FEMA decimated by a government that considered that organization a wasteful outgrowth of discredited New Deal democracy, produced twin storm surges that no levee could ever withstand.
Is there a stronger argument for the role of a truly compasionate government in the lives of its citizens? And can there be a clearer warning of the danger of a goverment -and a judiciary, content with Constitutional abstractions?
Now is not the time for political expediency: an appointee, no matter how well qualified and telegenic, cannot be considered qualified for the most important judicial post in America, without any actual Supreme Court experience.
Or are we looking at yet another political appointee -such as the last two heads of FEMA and a hundred other Bush appointees: individuals chosen to disassemble the very institutions they are supposed to lead?
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