With Blogging Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies?

An MLK award-winning Madison, Wisconsin pastor and youth counselor wrote an eloquent cry for racial justice that included this quote:

  Perhaps I missed it,...when the Race To Equity Report was published I didn't see a single letter to the editor in local newspapers about the dismal snapshot of African-Americans in Dane County.

Madison's Ann Althouse really changed that dynamic, giving the pastor's concerns a single 4-sentence paragraph.

She wrote four of her own paragraphs on the Republican's "War On Women" - as presented by Bill Maher. 

Obviously commenting on that is more important than the folks living across town.

Gov. Scott Walker - he who isn't doing anything about the black poverty in his state? 

Ann's obviously very concerned about his chances (!).

His political situation got 6 paragraphs of Ann's thoughts.

Whether or not the president meant to say "art history" - another 6 paragraphs. Extremely important.

"Impoverished thoughts of retirement"? That got 8 paragraphs - which should fill the hearts of every black guy sitting, illegally, in Madison's prisons - as well as the stomachs of the starving. 

 Look, with that one, I think I understand the problem:

As blacks fight for our lives, we can't know what a white feminist, making more in a year than blacks make in a lifetime, will find important.

There's simply nothing that can be done:

Except be glad whites, at least, are imagining their days of slavery and racism are over,…