“But what conservatives have never understood is that much of the country is now largely comfortable with abandoning “post-racial” illusions, so long the racial conversation focuses on white males as a unifying enemy for the coalition of the oppressed.”
Not only do conservatives fail to understand this, some actually encourage it through their cult-like veneration of the 1960s civil rights movement. Hannity sounds like a Lyndon Johnson groupie when the subject comes up.
Exhibit 1: Glenn Beck. He took a organic, focused movement with a simple to understand theme TEA - Taxed Enough Already - and single-handedly turned it into a weepy liberal mess, the 9/12 movement, whose most important job was further veneration of Martin Luther King.
Because, you know, America's biggest problem is that we don't worship at the alter of the Rev. Doctor MLK enough.
REALLY? What a moron. I hate that he's on XM in the morning. He's a waste of radio packets.