Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco — and Michelle Obama left her common sense in 1954. Addressing graduating high-school students the other day in the Topeka, Kansas, school district, the federal lunch lady said, referring to the Brown v. Board of Education decision, “[Y]our experience here in Topeka would have been unimaginable back in 1954….” And perhaps this is true. It also would have been unimaginable back in 1554 or 954. After all, the institutions making that experience possible hadn’t been birthed yet. You know, those institutions created by European/ European-descent civilization. That civilization that Darth Vegan is tacitly impugning with her racial agitation. The point is that if you’re going to talk about the past, don’t tendentiously cherry-pick it for destructive ideological purposes. It’s much as discussion about slavery. Not only is the focus always on the less than one percent of the history of... (Read Full Post)