Obama and the "radioactive racial issues of yesteryear"

That the Obama administration would fold so easily gives some sense of how frightened it was of a protracted fight with any kind of racial subtext, particularly one that had a subtext of black rage. Its enemies under­stood this, and when no black rage could be found, they concocted some. And the administration, in a panic, knuckled under.

— Remember Shirley Sherrod? Ah. When you have the time, spend it with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic story on the ways

that Obama chooses, or is forced to, not countenance race, in “a country so infantile that it can countenance white acceptance of blacks only when they meet an Al Roker standard.”