Civil Rights, Putz-Style.

Bayard Rustin, presumably.

Twenty years ago, which was not so long ago, Henry Louis Gates, whilst an esteemed professor in the Duke English Department, was repeatedly mistaken for a servant -- on his own property.

This, it is safe to say, is an intrinsically non-white experience.

A couple of decades later, race relations have not improved as much as Glenn Reynolds, for one, would like to you to think.

Sarah Palin may be gone, but her nativist fanbase remains -- and prospers.

That in mind, here's Andrew Breitbart, implicitly calling Professor Gates -- who, last I checked, is still the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, a segregation-era racist:

Whether he likes it or not, Sgt. Crowley is a potent symbol of how the union has managed to become more perfect, a Rosa Parks of rush-to-judgment "reverse racism."

And if Crowley -- who, it's worth repeating, arrested an African-American man on his own property -- is Rosa Parks, that makes Professor Gates...?

[via Putz, naturally.]