Pundits again are applauding Obama; this time over his speech on race. In so doing, however, they are inserting another bias by qualifying that Obama’s thoughtful oratory may only reach understanding with the suburban educated class already claimed to belong to Obama and that the blue collar, uneducated “knuckleheads” of Hillary supporters will not be capable of absorbing its “nuances.”

However, these nuances clearly were meant to safeguard his virtually unanimous black support and frenzied “upscale” whites by not “disowning” the fiery tongued Reverend Wright and having the effrontery and audacity to equate the reverend’s fire with the private light sparks of ancient old wives’ tales of his white grandmother. What is it we Democrats say about Republicans?—oh, yeah, they’d sell their grandmothers for votes.

Given that the N word and H word are used privately in many white and black households respectively, it is patronizing to lecture the public that racism still exists and many generations away from “we shall overcome.” What is particularly disturbing is that an intellectual has for twenty years viewed his controversial pastor as “family” and continued to support his church, which is worse than those who continue to follow controversial pastors of the religious right because one as ostensibly bright as Obama should not have been in any way influenced by—or hard to believe ignored or laughed off— such radical thought. The argument that Wright has done much good for the members of his parish is no more convincing than all the good the Christian coalition has done for its collective parishioners and the needy.

I fear—especially since I cannot "disown" him as part of the democratic “family”—that he is but another politician huckstering snake oil.