Henry Louis Gates is the thinking man's race hustler.  In 2013 he made this  grandiose statement to Salon: "Since slavery ended, all political movements have been about race." Gates hasn't written much about the vast political movement to protect the unborn or the fact that black families abort their youngest members four times more than white families.  The politics of race doesn't seem to include the enormous movement to protect the right to bear arms or the fact that law-abiding black people have been deprived of the right to protect themselves in left-wing districts.  He doesn't focus on the real enslavement of being black in America, which is black-on-black crime.  Or that 93% of black homicides are committed by black people.  In fact, a cursory review of his writing suggests that Gates considers that all political movement in America for the last 155 years comprise nothing but shadings of white racism. The subjects of...(Read Full Post)