A frequent whine from Republicans and conservatives is that they are unjustly considered racist. They find this inexplicable and an intolerable affair for the party of Lincoln (although the complaint seems to be more that Blacks are ingrates, rather than that the party doesn't pursue racist policies). Maybe they should take a look at this amazing article from John Derbyshire in National Review Online. Relatively sensible thoughts about recent hububs about the word "niggardly" lead to nostalgia for the old fascist's youth, when he could use the word "nigger" freely:

Let me say, as a digression before proceeding further, that I do not cringe at the word "nigger." I am not in awe of it. I grew up with it, actually. Not the way low-class white southerners used to grow up with it, as a term of bitter contempt for people believed to be inferior; nor even as educated white northerners used to grow up with it, as a signifier of the supposed stupidity, backwardness, and cruelty of southern whites; but as an ordinary noun free of any emotional content. As a child, I used to pick teams for street games by chanting: "Eeeny meeny miny mo, catch a nigger by his toe." The school uniform for the girls-only secondary school in my provincial English town came in two prescribed colors, spelt out in a booklet handed out to parents of new students at least as late as the early 1960s: "sky blue and nigger brown."

Weren't those the days?