Did you catch this? The other day, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert lamented all the focus on Jeremiah Wright:
"Race is like pornography in the United States — the dirty stories and dirty pictures that everyone professes to hate but no one can resist. But I suspect that even porn addicts get their fill sometimes."
I'm not sure that includes Mr. Herbert. Let's see:
Bob Herbert, April 29th: "All but swooning over the wonderfulness of himself, the reverend [Wright] acts like he is the first person to come up with the idea that blacks too often get the short end of the stick in America, that the malignant influences of slavery and the long dark night of racial discrimination are still being felt today, that in many ways this is a profoundly inequitable society."
Bob Herbert, March 25th:
"Barack Obama was on the phone [to Herbert], speaking about the one issue he had not wanted to focus on in his campaign: race."
Bob Herbert, February 2nd: "Anyone who thinks the Democrats are a lock to win in November has somehow forgotten about Karl Rove, the right-wing radio network, the hanging chads of 2000, the Swift boat debacle, the intimidation of black voters in Florida...Those who may think that a woman named Clinton or a black man named Obama will have an easy time winning the White House this year should switch to something less disorienting than whatever it is they’re smoking."
Sounds like one person who's writing a lot about race is...Bob Herbert.
