The folks at the National Review, who specialize in giving racism a (very thin) veneer of intellectual respectability, have set their sights on DeRay McKesson. Here’s the intro:
Meet DeRay McKesson: Bowdoin ’07, a former Minneapolis-area school administrator — and now the public face of “Black Lives Matter.” Imagine Al Sharpton, circa the Crown Heights riot, with access to Twitter. That’s DeRay.
via National Review
Now, I come not to praise or defend Mr. McKesson, who can take care of himself. I merely point out the prominence accorded his alma mater, which, I flatter myself into believing, the National Review considers self evidently a bastion of liberal perfidy, just as it considers Al Sharpton self evidently representative of all that is evil. After all, Bowdoin has been certified the worst school in the nation by a group of right wing professors, so, I feel comfortable in asserting that the folks at the white shoe racist rag are sending a message by the reference to Bowdoin.
To paraphrase a Dartmouth man, which pains this Bowdoin alum a bit, Bowdoin is a small college. And yet there are those who love it! I love it all the more knowing that it produced DeRay McKesson, and that he has disturbed the folks at the National Review. They wouldn’t bother attacking him if they weren’t afraid of him. A few more like him and we might finally live down the shame of Franklin Pierce.
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