On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:03:43 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
9/13/08

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White privilege is being able to say that you support the words
"under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough
for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be
immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the
pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't
added until the 1950s--while if you're black and believe in reading
accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because the
Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school,
requires it), you are a dangerous and mushy liberal who isn't fit to
safeguard American institutions.


You know, last time I looked, it was NOT the Constitution that
required the reading of rights to the suspect(s), but the result of
the 1966 United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Miranda
v. Arizona.

Although I agree with some of your statements, if you expect to be
seen as literate and even knowledgeable, you might want to keep your
rantings factually correct.