It’s one thing for liberals in the media to make up excuses for why they pushed a fake story about the Covington Catholic kids. But you’re dealing with something truly special when they start inventing absurd alternate realities about what would happen if the students had been black.

The non sequitur became common on social media within the last few days, but now author Michael Arceneaux has brought it to print, writing an impressively delusional piece for Essence magazine. Arcenaux argues that if Nick Sandmann had been a black boy, he wouldn’t be getting the sympathy that he did after his infamous scene with the old Native American protester turned out to be the opposite of what the media and the liberal Twitter mob said it was.