[D]eep in their bones, ... will believe -- and probably rightly -- that race was a key element, that had the racial shoe been on the other foot -- had John McCain been black and Obama white -- the result would have been different.
If Obama loses, ... I'll believe that American voters have made a huge mistake. And I'll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice -- not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike in its ability to adapt to new surroundings and to hide even from those firmly in its grip.
So white voters must vote for Obama to prove they’re not racist. But that logic cuts both ways, for the converse is that black voters must vote for McCain to prove they’re not racist.
It appears that the progressives are so invested in race and victim politics that they cannot possibly conceive any possibility that voters, of any race, gender, religion, or economic status might believe that McCain is the better choice.
How sad.
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