That's his name, and you wore it out

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October 26, 2008

That's his name, and you wore it out

The Instapundit made it clear today that a certain Glenn Reynolds, of Martinsville, Virginia, is not the widely read libertarian blogger from Knoxville, Tennessee. The Martinsville Glenn Reynolds got quoted in The Huffington Post as having a problem with the candidacy of U.S. Senator Barack Obama because he's against the idea of so-called "interracial marriage." (As far as I know, we are all of the human race.) The Knoxville Glenn Reynolds, on the other hand, sees no problem with individuals choosing a partner of a different, or the same, ethnic background -- or, for that matter, gender. (It's one of the finite number of endearing things about the Knoxville Glenn Reynolds.)

See, I count Martinsville, Virginia as one of my hometowns: I lived there from 1972 through the late 1980s or so. I still have close family members near there. And so I know that there is a significant portion of the local African-American population whose genetic makeup includes plenty of Caucasian DNA. Even though Virginia (reluctantly, with the help of the Supreme Court) only began allowing "interracial" marriage just a few years before my family moved there, black-white pairings obviously occurred long before. (After all, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings lived just up the road a ways.)

It's therefore rather disheartening to learn of the Martinsville Glenn Reynolds denigrating so many of his own neighbors, even though his comments were made concerning Obama. However, it's not surprising. If I were the blogger Glenn Reynolds, I'd be sure to distance myself from this guy as quickly as possible too.

Politics is Personal | By joe lance | 8:42 PM

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