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by Mary Sanchez
Whoever came up with the insipid term "post-racial" ought to be forced to sit down and read aloud the vile commentary that pours into any newsroom after it publishes or airs a story on race. That would quickly cure the urge to insist we've finally reached that harmonious other side of the rainbow.
We certainly saw no such evidence in recent days, even in the actions of Barack Obama's
By now the saga of Shirley Sherrod is well known.
Both the
Unfortunately for Sherrod, Fox and Breitbart have almost unrivaled power to shape political debate in the United States. When they go on attack, their opponents tremble. In these times of the media's 24-hour spin cycle, there are the quick and the dead. Vilsack acted in haste, and now he and his boss in the Oval Office have a mighty mess to clean up.
There is another racially charged dimension to this drama, one that most commentators and reporters don't mention:
The Obama administration is backing legislation enabling a
And, of course, right before it nose-dived on the Sherrod story, the
Why does anybody care about the
It seems there's always another side to these lurid stories -- the truth, the complicated truth. But the truth seldom has the visceral appeal that Fox's all-too-often fictional exposes have. And by the time accurate information makes its way into mainstream print media, the damage is done.
Post-racial America? Not happening. Not until people quit twisting the truth, pandering to the indignation of the hypersensitive, and feeling entitled to ruin the lives and careers of innocent people just to win a news cycle.
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