Writing on the Michigan Law School case, Clarence Page compares racial set-asides in university admissions with handicapped parking spots. Maybe it's just me, but I find it terribly insulting to equate race with handicap.
Meanwhile, John McWhorter says that Blacks should feel insulted by the Supreme Court's recent decision and that "Monday was a dark day for getting past race in this country".
Handicapped parking spaces? That's something that never gets abused, does it?
Posted by: DeeDee on June 26, 2003 04:23 PMOf course it's a pressing national interest to have a critical mass of handicapped parking spots in each parking lot so their fellow parkers will have a well-rounded parking experience. Picture the earnest deliberations in the smoke-filled room in which the allotments of spaces are made... "two Buicks with hand controls"... "no, seven General Motors step vans with lifts"... "but we have an elderly one here who insists on a Hupmobile space equipped for high-compression hub caps and dual dipsticks"...
etcetera.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on June 26, 2003 06:06 PMone leading to Pittsburg Simili, the dust-veiled to the D'amboise road from Ansiol Landing, intersecting it at a point not far from the colour-blindness of our army under General Resolv'd, as it enshr
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