“Dwight Lewis”

Everyone has standards, and everyone has blind spots. It’s the racially tinged standard of Dwight Lewis, long time columnist for The Tennessean, that occupies that troublesome never-seen area between the back driver’s side window and your left shoulder.

Per Mark Rose

Lewis, if you recall, wrote in the wake of Bob Corker’s defeat of Harold Ford, Jr. for the U.S. Senate that “I’ll go to my grave believing that Tuesday’s election between Harold Ford and Bob Corker shows we still have a long way to go to achieve social justice and equality.” This prompted me to pen an editorial for the Tennessean a few days after the 2006 election. Now, a little more than a year after Corker’s 51-48% defeat of Harold Ford, Jr., Tennessee Democrats selected the white candidate over the black guy by 54-41%, and Dwight Lewis has yet to refer to Tennessee Democrats as racists. One can only conclude that in Dwight Lewis’ world of perpetual racism, it’s okay for Democrats to vote white, but not Republicans.

I guess Tennessee Democrats just aren’t interested in justice or equality. More likely though, Dwight Lewis just hasn’t found enough articles to quote from to write his own column yet.

Link courtesies of VV.