The Black Left Self-Pities to Rapturous Applause

<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I am a conservative.  Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so.  Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.”  -Russell Kirk</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> "When you look over his criminal record, in my opinion, he shouldn’t ever have been out of prison to start with."  -Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">"I am stating very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: *I* picked the cotton, *I* carried it to the market, and *I* built the railroads under someone else’s whip for nothing."  -James Baldwin</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> "Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America."  -Eric Hoffer</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p>