Race in America: Clinton will leave it alone, Obama might talk about it
In the back and forth between the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I generally have had little to say. It is only today, with Clinton’s sneaky remarks about the so-called “controversy” regarding Obama’s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that I feel impelled to write about one way race has entered this campaign. It is only now, with Reverend Wright’s comments in the spotlight and the associated discomfort most Americans feel upon hearing them, that we are finally beginning to recognize what it means to potentially have a president who is different. More accurately, it is a clarification of the real nature of that “difference” that so far has not been properly appreciated, having been relegated to the mere fact that Barack Obama has black skin. [Read more →]
