Steve Chapman on Rep. Bobby Rush's Racial Slur
Two politicians, one black and one white, have a disagreement on an issue. One airs an opinion, and the other responds with a racial insult. What will happen next? Consider the case of Illinois' U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, a black Democrat, and Sen. Mark Kirk, a white Republican. Kirk has been urging law enforcement agencies to destroy Chicago's biggest gang by arresting its members -- all 18,000 of them. In response, writes Steve Chapman, Rush declared Kirk's proposal "an upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about."
