Tuesday with Thomas - "Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything."

Mr. Sowell's column lays it ALL on the line...and not being a white Liberal, he knows whereof he speaks. Facts are such MESSY things, aren't they?

For those who are interested in facts — and these obviously do not include President Obama — there has been a serious study of racial profiling in a book titled "Are Cops Racist?" by Heather Mac Donald. Her analysis of the data shows how this issue has long been distorted beyond recognition by politics.
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What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Read the column.