Jay Lewis
2008-03-28 12:43:55
I remember this argument when I was growing up in the segregated South: “You people have the whole back of the bus. What are ya’ll complaining about? We’re just trying to accommodate everybody.”
And when marshals and paratroopers came to inform the local officials that the government would have to obey its own law, the segregationists switched to a cultural argument: “Why are they down here interfering with our way of life?”
I can understand this coming from the Committee for the Commendation of Virtue and the Condemnation of Vice, because they are just angry, ignorant men. But you, Harvard, have joined the same rogues’ gallery as Orval Faubus, Bull Conner and Robert Shelton, done it with a self-righteous smile.
