DH wrote:
You’d almost conclude, from all the vigorous back self-patting, that the whole reason we had slavery and Jim Crow was just to transcend them someday, thereby proving our innate goodness.
JG writes:
Precious, dude.
Moving beyond the merely distasteful to the truly tragic: the way in which African-Americans' dizzy embrace of Obama creates the opportunity for the mainstream media's national narcissism, even though most Af-Ams probably find such self-congratulation quite offensive and racist (and rightly so).
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