The Left Embraces Apartheid

Re-segregation is increasingly the norm.

A sad reality on the 61st anniversary of Rosa Parks' courage.

by Matt Ridley
December 1, 2016

The home page of Hillary Clinton’s campaign website has links to “African Americans for Hillary, Latinos for Hillary, Asian Americans and Pacific islanders for Hillary, Women for Hillary, Millennials for Hillary,” but none to “Men for Hillary,” let alone “White Americans for Hillary.”

On my side of The Pond, the student union at King’s College London will field a team in University Challenge that contains at least 50 per cent “self-defining women, trans or non-binary students.”

The only bad thing former London Mayor Ken Livingstone could bring himself to say about the brutal dictator Fidel Castro was that “initially he wasn’t very good on lesbian and gay rights.”

Since when did the left insist on judging people by — to paraphrase Martin Luther King — the color of their skin rather than the content of their character? The left once championed the right of black people, women and gays to be treated t…