Jack White draws "a straight line between Barack Obama's White House aspirations and the embarrassing spectacle of Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation." His thesis: "Largely because he was black and conservative and affluent and educated and Republican, Thomas drove a stake through the heart of the ignorant assumptions about all black folks: liberal and poor and dumb and Democrats. After him, there's no denying that some black folks aren't on the Democrats' reservation." Thus, Thomas "deserves credit--or blame--for reshaping popular notions of what it means to be black and American. And, win or lose in November, Obama is already an historic beneficiary."
And check out White's article "Barack, Here;s How to Get the White People".
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