Obama has eagerly embraced the notion of his racial transcendence. He has cast himself as the embodiment of a post-racial America and not so subtly compared his call for political civility to Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality…They up its conceit with an optimistic chant Saturday night: “Race doesn’t matter!” If only it were so.
Daily Archives: January 28, 2008
Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be editor in chief of the online magazine, called The Root.
The Caucus: Toni Morrison Endorses Obama
Though she still admires Bill and Hillary Clinton, the author is supporting Barack Obama because, she says, he has “a creative imagination which, coupled with brilliance, equals wisdom.”