I hope your editorial board is willing to take on this lightly veiled appeal to bigotry.

Tribune, Kathleen Parker owe readers an apology -- -- chicagotribune.com May 14, 2008

I recognize that your columnists are meant to recognize a diversity of opinions. But you owe your readers an apology for today's column by Kathleen Parker ("The 'Bubba' vote," May 14). It represents a level of venom that merits either a reprimand or an explanation from your editorial board. "Blood equity" is Parker's phrase to defend assaults on multi-culturalism, gun control, or indeed any critiques of religion. Two hundred years of continuous residence is apparently the requirement for an American in order to have "equity" in her society. "Generations of sacrifice" is the badge of honor to defend "their heritage." Those arriving after 1808 need not apply. We have heard this language before, from segregationists (is this part of "their heritage?"); from prohibitionists; from anti-suffrage advocates. "Full-blooded" Americans "get this," Parker concludes in this impassioned defense of ethnocentrism. I hope your editorial board is willing to take on this lightly veiled appeal to bigotry.