George H.W. Bush: “Pleased to announce my decision to nominate Ambassador John Negroponte as director of national intelligence.”

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Bigotry seems emboldened.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.