It's Always Selma Again; On the cheapening of civil-rights history.

"The Rev. Mr. Nostalgia"

 By James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal
"Some of the efforts to evoke the civil-rights movement today are downright laughable. The Washington Times--in a story reporting that the Smithsonian Institution is trying, no joke, to acquire the sweatshirt Trayvon Martin was wearing when George Zimmerman shot him in self-defense--reports: "The National Museum of African American History and Culture is set to open in 2015 and will display objects related to the Civil Rights Movement, such as the handcuffs used to restrain Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr."

Michael Barone; Today’s civil-rights leaders believe it is still 1955.

...."Instead there was a desperate longing to see this unhappy incident as a case of a white racist hunting down and murdering an innocent black — with a view to establishing that this kind of thing happens all the time.

"It doesn’t. Yes, young black men are homicide victims in large and tragic numbers. But the perpetrators are almost always other young black men, as in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago, where almost every weekend there are multiple such murders."....