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Simpson on the left Lott on the right.

I believe the declining scores of black students in dilapidated schools is directly due to integration. After all, blacks should not have to compete with their superior counterparts.

Of course, I really don’t believe that, but if I dared utter such ignorant claptrap, I would immediately be branded a racist, there would be a public outcry, I would lose the opportunity to interact in the public forum, and I would be unilaterally shunned by society. It would be a harsh and probably undeserved fate for saying a harmless thought.

It is a worse fate by far than one given to a certain man who got away with the brutal killing of his wife and her friend. 

The public response to two recent media events illuminates a horrid flaw in society’s morality. It has been usurped and inverted by new doctrines of modern liberalism that hold different people to different standards.

On one side of the new morality spectrum, we have people like Trent Lott. Although the year is 2003, Lott has gone back in time to Orwell’s “1984” and is being punished for the heinous act of a thoughtcrime. Indeed, Lott made an ignorant statement, but he is treated as though he committed a crime against humanity. Lott is not being punished for his actual words. He is being punished for what the mainstream thought he was thinking.

These terrible words were, “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.” To assume Lott was lauding a stance on forced segregation, a wholly disgusting idea, is not a great leap of logic. But, we do not know Lott’s thoughts for sure. He could have been referring to the Dixiecrat stance on strong Federalism and states’ rights that most Americans probably agree with.

The hatred of bigotry seems a little one-sided too. Where was the outcry, the demand for resignation, and the public humiliation when minorities made even worse statements?

Julienne Malveaux, a USA Today columnist, said, “There’s no great, white bigot; there’s just about 200 million little white bigots out there.” Representative Diane Watson lambasted our own UC Regent Ward Connerly saying, “He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.” Jesse Jackson has referred to New York City as Hymietown, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has called Judaism a “gutter religion.”

Not only has modern liberalism turned thought into a crime, but it has completely destroyed the ideal of being judged by character instead of the color of one’s skin.

On the other side of the new morality spectrum, we have men like O.J. Simpson. Simpson brutally killed two people, then used his money and his race to walk away a free man. At least the civil trial was missing an inept judge and prosecution team and thankfully found him responsible for the slayings. To this day, Simpson has not paid the full amount owed to the families of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. And instead of searching tirelessly for the “real killer,” he plays golf, lounges around, and seems to have enough time to be convicted of battery in 2000.

A quick internet search yields O.J.-signed memorabilia selling for hundreds of dollars. Also, near the end of the year, Simpson made a surprise visit to the practice of his alma mater’s football team, the USC Trojans. But instead of being shunned for the cold-blooded killer that he is, the team and the coach welcomed him with open arms, got autographs, brought him into the locker room, and treated him like a Heisman Trophy-winning hero. Instead of outrage or cordial rejection, the team gladly accepted Simpson’s return.

“The first time I got a football uniform, I wanted No. 32 to be like ‘The Juice,’” said tailback Justin Fargas.

Quarterback Carson Palmer admiringly stated, “I think everybody recognized him even from that far away. I think everybody noticed. It’s cool.” And the coach, who should have been the moral leader of the team, shook Simpson’s hand and said, “He’s a legend. At ’SC, our guys hold a Heisman Trophy winner in high regard.”

And so, thanks to the new subverted morality of the American left, a man who committed a double homicide is treated with higher regard than a man who said a few careless remarks. Go team go.