Let’s not inflame racial tensions, they’re incendiary sufficient

I've this odd, puritanical quirk. I don’t assume individuals ought to run for president by pitching racially inflammatory fables to voters. Republicans or Democrats. And no, I’m not speaking about President Donald Trump, though nowadays, they’re just about his stock-in-trade, together with crackpot conspiracy theories. This week it’s Google, the Federal Reserve and Fox News. Before that, it was the rat and vermin “infested” metropolis of Baltimore and its African-American congressman, Elijah Cummings. A buddy lately directed me to an astonishingly disingenuous Wall Street Journal op-ed by Heather Mac Donald entitled “Trump Isn’t the One Dividing Us by Race.” The president, she writes, “rarely uses racial categories in his speech or his