Blow On Being Black In The Age Of Obama

Check out this recent NYT column by Charles Blow. A snippet: "Blacks are living a tale of two Americas--one of the ascension of the first black president with the cultural capital that accrues; the other of a collapsing quality of life and amplified racial tensions, while supporting a president who is loath to even acknowledge their pain, let alone commiserate in it." (The latter part of that statement strikes me as unfair to the President.)