Ronald Kessler, The Cutting Edge
- The fact that a black man is a serious contender for the U.S. presidency is a historic achievement that signifies progress in race relations. But in emphasizing Barack Obama’s skin color around the clock, the media, some Democratic politicians, and to some extent Obama himself, have magnified rather than diminished the racial divide.
At some point in our lives, most of us have come to recognize that in conversation, gratuitously identifying a person as being “black: is inappropriate. A person’s skin color is irrelevant. For that same reason, in considering a new CEO for a company, no one would be so classless as to mention race.
Yet one way or another, almost every mention of Obama in the media dwells on the fact that he is an African-American.
