Ever liberal Richard Cohen writes about the way blacks supposedly hear words differently than whites:

To my (racially) tin ear, little that either Bill or Hillary Clinton has said this election season sounded ugly. These included the remarks that seemed to have started it all — Hillary Clinton’s crushingly banal observation that for all that Martin Luther King Jr. did, it took Lyndon Johnson’s presidency to enact a monumental civil rights law. The context was clearly her contention that despite Barack Obama’s soaring rhetoric, it takes good old experience (like hers) to get the job done. Who could possibly object to that?

Anyone who seeks to be offended, dummy. Taking offense rewards certain patronized groups (blacks, hispanics) political power. Where have you been, Richard?

Lots of people, it turned out, many of them African American. Obama himself called the remark “unfortunate.” My own ears heard nothing untoward, and when I mentioned that to an African American colleague, he said — to my utter surprise — that he initially took the remark as a swipe at King. I was flabbergasted. Who would take a swipe at King? A Democratic presidential candidate would have to be criminally insane to do such a thing.

LBJ was a nasty man in many ways. But without his skill in wielding Congressional power the Civil Rights Act never would have passed. Southern Democrats had blocked progress on this since the end of Reconstruction.

Hillary was right. Anyone offended by historical fact should be told to grow up, not patronized even more.

Screw sensitivity.