“Liberal Democrats famously fancy themselves champions of tolerance, sensitivity, and diversity, yet they embrace an intolerant orthodoxy that manifests some fundamentally racist attitudes and assumptions. There is no more racist assumption than one that imputes particular beliefs to a variety of men and women in a variety of places with many different interests, values, and backgrounds simply on the basis of race. The great novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston didn’t just speak to me, she spoke for me: “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, or lurking behind my eyes….I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that Nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt by it….No, I do not weep at the world―I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” –Former Delegate Paul Harris
From ‘Notes from the sausage factory,’ Barnie Day, Becky Dale editors, publishing mid-July, 450 pages, Brunswick Books
