Michael Borshuk

Have been unable to chase from my mind over the past week or so how much Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum remind me of Ralph Ellison's Adam Sunraider, race-baiting politician from Juneteenth (or Three Days Before the Shooting), the Big E's long unfinished second novel.  Depressing, how as we move forward into these allegedly post-racial times (snicker!) in the 21st century, white conservative politicians continue to raise the specter of the black leech on taxpayers as a means of stoking support from their racist base.  I wait for the Cadillac Flambe, figurative or not.