5. Now that we're to have a black, or more properly, a biracial president, let's consider how this may help us all. I might have preferred, due to his demonstrated (not just asserted) strengths of intellect, character and understanding, to have blazed that trail with, say, Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas. What is, is; what isn't, isn't. The "isn't" in our national life -- and it needs fixing -- is the number of blacks who reside outside the American mainstream. Segregation was more than unfair; it was stupid and stultifying. It signified that all we could think of to do with a tenth of the U. S. population was separate and isolate. Isolate -- and therefore alienate -- a tenth of our people? Doesn't it make more sense to help those same people contribute to their and our society? The same with Hispanic immigrants (leaving aside the question of who's legal and who isn't). If we're to be a tri-racial nation, let's make it work.
6. "O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man; for there is no help in them." So the Psalmist asserts. The conservative who thinks the good life equates to good policy in government is, um, gravely mistaken. Good policy is better than bad, but it gets you, and your country, just so far. First come the things of the heart, and the conscience.
7. Laugh anyway. A sense of joy in the face of the worst is the conservative secret weapon. Leave anger to liberals, who rarely get a joke not directed at Bush. They'll go nuts. And you'll laugh even more.
Bill Murchison
Bill Murchison is the former senior columns writer for
The Dallas Morning News and author of
There's More to Life Than Politics.
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