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The Old Left was very important in the civil-rights movement, which now even the far right concedes was a Good Thing, but which at the time it bitterly opposed.
You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.
Shortly after he won the Pulitzer Prize for Parting the Waters (1988), which chronicled the first decade of the civil-rights movement, author Taylor Branch told a reporter that he would probably complete his second and final volume by the fall of 1990, "when the money runs out."
In hopes of attracting more white votes, the Democratic Party has distanced itself from civil-rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, and from issues like welfare reform and affirmative action.
But should we really expect the minority share of enrollments not just to keep growing but to keep growing at its initial pace ? Even in the best of all possible civil-rights environments, the rate of increase would have to slow down sometime, wouldn't it, as minority admissions approached a fair, non-discriminatory level?