Re-writing History. Badly.

"It is delusion, bordering on abomination, to try to equate what Martin Luther King was doing in Memphis to public workers getting Cadillac benefits for which they contribute very little, or nothing, at taxpayers' expense," says Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights who has also served on the National Labor Relations Board.

"The sanitation workers in Memphis were receiving wages that were so significantly below that which are enjoyed by middle-class teachers in Madison that to try to draw that comparison is offensive. Truly offensive."

Ah! Now I understand what State Sen. Jauch was doing, telling us stories of his upbringing in Wheaton, IL, where his black friend couldn't take care of business at the same barbershop.

(and here, in the integrated area where I grew up, it was more the different hairstyles, rather than outright discrimination, that determined where you went. Progress. Might help the WEAC teachers' cause today, though, if they actually had some black faces tearing up the streets, chanting for mo' money! alongside them, no?)

ADDED: And no, Jesse Jackson, professional protester, doesn't count.