Posted by
Member of the Tribe on Sunday, November 09, 2008 10:45:30 AM
Enquiring minds want to know: does the Obama presidency herald the end
of racism in America (or the beginning of the end or the end of the
beginning)? Did it just confirm it, to the extent that 53% of the
electorate were presumably willing to vote for Obama the day before
(and the day before that, etc.), not to mention the the percentage of
the McCain electorate who pulled the lever for non-racist reasons? Or
will the mainstream media conjure up a "Post-Bradley effect," in which
white supremacists secretly voted for Obama to mask their racism?
Similarly, can we find a silver lining in the mainstream media's
no-longer-a-secret Obama swooning? Is it proof positive that at least
everyone in the media (with the obvious exception of the "haters" at
Fox news and Rush Limbaugh) has transcended racism? Or is it part of
the soft racism of lowered expectations?
Shelby Steele addresses these issues in his L.A. Times piece
Obama's post-racial promise
Barack
Obama seduced whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely
to coerce them into acting out of a racial motivation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steele5-2008nov05,0,6553798.story