Carol Anderson has written an op-ed column for The Washington Post in which she argues that what happened in Ferguson is the result of "white rage." That is merely the tenuous "hook" upon which she hangs a column enumerating African Americans' grievances with white America since the Civil War.
As Anderson tells it, whites have fought an unbroken string of rearguard actions resisting equal rights and decent treatment for black Americans. She believes the string remains unbroken to this very day, deep in the fifth year of a black President elected with more white votes than black.
A half-empty glass is also half-full. If you assume Anderson is correct, an assumption COTTonLINE does not share, you are apt to be as depressed and full of rage as she appears to be.
Carol Anderson is an Emory University associate professor of African American studies and history. Hat tip to RealClearPolitics for the link.
