Kanye West may or may not be right about George W. Bush not caring about black people.

But, this group, which distributed fliers at a Brooksville, Fla., event over the weekend, definitely doesn’t. They sought help for the “White victims of Hurricane Katrina,” according to their handout. “… (T)o bring hope to our people - who have become the forgotten men and women of this disaster …”

It must really burn them up to see all those poor black people CNN keeps showing getting helped. How could the Red Cross do such an un-Christian thing?

Don’t get me wrong. The National Vanguard Tampa Unit has a right to distribute their fliers. Go nuts; I’d rather have the ignorant people out in the open, where sensible people can keep an eye on them.

I remember some well-meaning lefty student approaching me in Ann Arbor, and asking for my signature on a petition to prevent a similar Klan-derivative group from holding an event on the Diag. (That’s the common square, if you will, of the University of Michigan, and home to the famous Hash Bash marijuana legalization rally.) I refused. She didn’t understand.

She walked off in a huff when I tried to explain that the Klan can’t win at a podium. It’s an unreasoning hate group. It was once a frightening collective of terrorist cells. But, just as I believe is the case with Islamic extremism and Ann Coulterism, moderate voices always subvert and temper such non-platforms once they’re forced to compete in an arena of ideas.

Let them talk. Let people see how ignorant they are.