[MD] Steele meets Pirsig on common ground

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> > In a WSJ editorial recently, Shelby Steele, author of "White Guilt," 
> > 
> > wrote the following:
> > 
> > "Anti-Americanism, whether in Europe or on the American left, works by
> >  the mechanism of white guilt. It stigmatizes America with all the
> > imperialistic and racist ugliness of the white Western past so that
> > America becomes a kind of straw man, a construct of Western sin. (The 
> > Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons were the focus of such
> > stigmatization campaigns.) 
> 
> 
> [Khaled]
> The fact the above happened,, happens and will happen again, proves that
> it is not a stigma, but rather a relaying of the TRUTH.
> 
> I rest my case your honor.

So Khaled, there's nothing good about America, or white people? 

Platt