The Rich Lowry piece I mentioned recently set me thinking about something his near-namesake, Glenn Loury wrote in 1996:
Many neoconservatives marched for racial justice thirty years ago. Then, the demons were clear; they are less so now. But you cannot tell me what now transpires in ghetto America does not constitute a great injustice to those hundreds of thousands of youngsters who never got a chance. Conservative ideologues may rest content with being right about liberals having been wrong. But, if they are to remain true to their own roots, these intellectuals who grew up in Brooklyn or the Lower East Side should want more.
Quoted in Jim Sleeper's Liberal Racism.
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