Post-Racial Folly
. . . The consensus is growing that the greatest failure of the modern presidency is no longer a self-absorbed, mean-spirited white guy. . .Rather, it is a self absorbed, mean-spirited black guy. Excerpt: Obama: Our First Post-Racial Failure , American Thinker, 7/28/11, Stuart Schwartz . . .But what about black Americans? Won't in Obama presidency at last lead us across centuries-old gulf of alienation into the recognition that America really is our country? . . .Like most Americans, I love to see an Obama presidency nudge things in this direction. But the larger reality is profound disparity between black and white Americans that will persist even under the glow of an Obama presidency . Excerpt: Obama Post-Racial Promise , LA Times, 11/5/08, Shelby Steele The quandary that black Americans find themselves in as they have and continue to give undying support to the first elected black president is clear. They did not support a black president, but they supporte