That NYT article posted awhile back really says it all for me... an academic elitist, in the truest sense possible, gets slightly harassed by a multi-ethnic team of police officers outside of his upper-class home in Cambridge and all of a sudden becomes Al Sharpton's new banner. Meanwhile, the ghettos are still festering with hate, drugs and poverty.
Something inside of me thinks that Gates should shove it, get back to teaching upper-class Americans about their ancestors' sins, and let the rest of America get back to living their real lives.
Identity politics is a cancer and people like Gates, and even Obama in this circumstance, are more responsible than they would like to think for the continuing self-victimizing that has come to characterize the political community of American blacks.
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