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Again, McWhorters is unneccessarily hung up on the gay marriage issue. Like most of black America, it is preventing him from making the entirely natural jump from the very valid points he is making:

Now, the argument about liberals’ hypocrisy is valid when it comes to a black person’s views on race. Too many on the left think black conservative ideas are incontestably wrong, treating those who air them as naive at best (Herman Cain) and sinister at worst (Condoleezza Rice). I am inclined to call this dismissal ignorance rather than racism, but we need not split hairs.

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That’s especially ironic because, while Democrats tend to think they have the lock on racial enlightenment, it is actually often Republicans who have the larger understanding of what it is to assess people according to the content of their character.

Take affirmative action, for example. To proclaim that it’s okay to evaluate black and Latino college applicants partly on grades but also on their contribution to “diversity” — while white and Asian students are required to just put up or shut up — is racist.

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That kind of policy makes sense only as a temporary fix, which is what affirmative action should always have been. However, to then slide into the idea that race-based admissions must continue until racism doesn’t exist (i.e., forever) is to essentially assert that blacks and Latinos are the world’s first humans to require perfect conditions to succeed.

It's annoying, but it's also fascinating to watch how close to the truth McWhorters actually is. The left mocks Rush Limbaugh when he talks about "low information voters," but he isn't necessarily referring to ignorant people. He's also talking about extremely intelligent people who get all of their news from one biased point of veiw.

BTW, the left can validly say the same thing about some people on our side of the aisle. The only way to effect change is to truely understand how your opponents see the world.