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Wish I'd said that - November 12, 2020

“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the Earth.”

John Steinbeck, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8 2004

Some good news in the American political race

In my latest Mercatornet column I find good news amid the snarling and sneering about the 2020 Presidential race: Trump’s increased vote among blacks and other minorities shows that the bitterly divisive horror story about America’s hopeless “systemic” racism is not true and is increasingly not believed even by the supposed victims.