Not Your Sweetie

Uptdating the Minstrel Show (Mike Wallace in NYT on the GOP Convention)


> But if Philadelphia is to be our model, we shouldn't count
> on a riveting event. That was a tightly scripted affair
> about "compassion," featuring people of color performing
> for a snowy white audience of delegates. Maybe next year
> the theme will be updated from race to class, with a
> stageful of the unemployed and uninsured singing the
> virtues of tax cuts.