Courtland Milloy On Apologists For Racists

Courtland Milloy, writing in the Washington Post on the "tea party" people and the racism on display in Washington, D.C. last weekend: "I am sick of these people--and those who make excuses for them and their victim-whiner mentality." He asks why those who don't like deficits and oppose what they view as the government's takeover of health care "didn't refer to white Democrats using racial epithets. No one yelled 'white trash' or 'redbeck cracker' at any one of those congressmen. And none of their own ever stands up and declares that such practices are morally wrong."