The Country That Wasn't There

The Country That Wasn't ThereThe Liberals did not desert: they were deserted--that is what made the whole thing so painful. After the martyrdoms of Chaney and Goodman and Schwerner, white kids were told to get out. It was like a scene from Mad magazine, with Indians pouring in on the Lone Ranger: "We're surrounded, Tonto." "What's this we, white man?" Liberals who wanted to sway, holding hands, as they sang We Shall Overcome, found the black hand withdrawn and a sneer that sa...