The Hot Buttered Soul of Wit

Writing for Salon.com, Debra J. Dickerson today takes 1,905 words to convey what I said in one line from my Barack Obama carol: "He's black, but not too black."

Whites, on the other hand, are engaged in a paroxysm of self-congratulation; he's the equivalent of Stephen Colbert's "black friend." Swooning over nice, safe Obama means you aren't a racist.... If he were Ronald Washington from Detroit, even with the same résumé, he wouldn't be getting this kind of love. Washington would have to earn it, not just show promise of it, and even then whites would remain wary.

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