Thanks to this, I've finally realized the difference between the left in the 60's and the left now, regarding domestic racial issues. Back then they seemed to agree with Martin Luther King Jr., and favored equality of opportunity, something we can all get behind. Now, however, it has become equality of outcome, which is a whole different animal. Even if a minority doesn't take advantage of their equal opputunities, we have to set up programs to make sure the outcome is equal.

In another of this columnist's articles on why he no longer feels in tune with what passes for the left-wing today in the US, he mentions how on any random day you can tune in to Air America and hear Al Franken or Rhandi Rhodes whining about how 60 votes were stolen in Ohio during the election, and then you can switch over to any number of conservative radio shows and hear talk about how the Sudan genocide is out of hand and we need to put pressure on the government to do something. Which of those two examples seems closer to what you think of as a progressive? I'm gonna pick the group that wants to help people escape opression and tyranny instead of the group that can't listen to its own advice and "Moveon."