AH, MES AMIS, ze lettres, ze e-mails, zey keep coming in, non?
Yes, they do. So it may be time to share a few. The first comes from David Horowitz, the former leftist who now gets his revenge by skewering the left, liberals, those addicted to political correctness and black nationalists whenever he gets the chance. Horowitz reacted to his "Not Shutting Up When I Was Ahead Award," bestowed on him in Wednesday's column. I chided Horowitz for some errors he made in an article called "Reparations Buffoons on the Mall" and suggested he might remember that "editors are our friends."
"Well, I would certainly have appreciated having you as an editor - I enjoy most of your columns," Horowitz began. "I just didn't happen to have one. I really didn't know enough about [Marcus] Garvey, I guess, and appreciate the correction. The wrong date for the Million Man March is pretty minor, wouldn't you say, and I meant disciple of Wallace Fard in the sense that Fard was the true originator of the [Nation of Islam] cult."
Horowitz is right on several points. Making the year of the Million Man March 1991 instead of 1995 could well have been a typo, one that an editor would surely pick up. Wallace Fard enters this discussion because Horowitz called Fard current NOI leader Louis Farrakhan's mentor. I contended that the title more appropriately fit Elijah Muhammad, but Horowitz is correct in noting that Fard is the originator of the sect.
One other note: Horowitz more than made up for the few errors in "Reparations Buffoons on the Mall" with his book Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery. Horowitz reprinted his anti-reparations ad that he bought in several college and university newspapers in his book, and added material about the atmosphere of intolerance and hatred he found in our so-called institutions of higher learning when he visited campuses to defend his views.
Make sure to put Uncivil Wars on your reading list. A guy with Horowitz's moxie is entitled to a few errors.
An e-mailer who wants to be identified only as "Tim the MP" [he says he was an Army military police captain for seven years] contends I made an error when I said National Guard troops couldn't be used to help city police because it would violate the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
