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bobbyw24
10-27-2009, 01:36 PM
In Defense of Carol Swain apologist for white supremacists."

By JAMES TARANTO

"Carol Swain is an apologist for white supremacists," Mark Potok of the Southern Povert Law Center tells the Tennessean. Carol Swain is also a friend of this column. To our mind the charge seemed awfully far-fetched, so we decided to get to the bottom of it. Swain, who is black, is a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert on white supremacists, having written a book on the subject, " The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration," which was published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press and drew plaudits from scholars both liberal (Harvard's William Julius Wilson) and conservative (Princeton's Robert P. George). Readers may remember that we criticized Swain back in June for a comment she made to the Washington Post. She contacted us through Facebook and told us we had misunderstood her intent. We offered her an opportunity to respond, which intent. We offered her an opportunity to respond, which and started keeping up with her writings. While w

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bobbyw24
10-27-2009, 02:07 PM
Potock has some nerve saying what he says