Leonard Pitts is an extremely erudite columnist who just happens to be an Obama supporter....that he happens also to be black is, I’m sure, of no particular consequence. He would no doubt support Obama if Obama was white. (I mean, who wouldn’t support a brilliant young white man with similar credentials.)
A poor boy with a single mother who handed him off to her own parents to raise; a smarter than average child who attended a number of diverse schools; a graduate of Harvard Law, etc. etc....a community organizer, a member of the Chicago Democrat machine, Illinois State Senator and, movin’ on up, junior senator to the U.S. Congress and on his way to becoming one of the youngest, most inexperienced Presidents ever. And he’s black. With a funny name.
Still, I’m sure that color has nothing to do with Leonard Pitts support for Obama. That might be construed as racist and everyone knows that Blacks (African Americans, Negroes, and a long time ago, People of the colored persuasion) simply can’t be racist. Only whites can be racist. And are. All whites. Even the ones that don’t wanna be. Like Bill Clinton, this country’s first ‘black’ President.
Or like so many American whites who, justifiably or not, carry the guilt of the white hypocrisy that created the system that created slavery in the first place.
(Has Snopes.com ever got around to debunking that urban myth?)
Ah well, Leonard Pitts is very good with words but I’ll remind him that those who deniy reason cannot be conquered by it.
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