printIn an attempt to wrangle black police officers into defying their training to be more like him, Democratic New York Rep. Charles Rangel blurted out a home truth about the proclivities among men of his racial sensibilities: “In the Korean War, only black deaths bothered me. … I never was moved until I saw dead people that looked like me in my uniform. And it does make a difference.”
Yes, who is more likely, in aggregate, to embody this tribal racialism? Whites, who’re forever marching alongside blacks victimized, or blacks whom one seldom sees standing up for whites victimized?