If you don't like a post don't read it, if there is anything I hate it is those who get on their high moral horse and spout crap. And the moronic ad hominem sucks - if you want to know something that sucks - start thinking or close your F_ing eyes and go back in your cave.

That said, Ishmael Reed is the author, a black man, assholes, I am sick of this preachy horseshit I hear from so many. He can say what he wants, again, don't read it if it offends your hypocritical sensibilities.

Read the pieces and address the thought, if you can.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/op...02herbert.html

"Gee, I wonder why, if you have a black man running for high public office — say, Barack Obama or Harold Ford — the opposition feels compelled to run low-life political ads featuring tacky, sexually provocative white women who have no connection whatsoever to the black male candidates....

Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as "the American president Americans have been waiting for."

Both ads were foul, poisonous and emanated from the upper reaches of the Republican Party. (What a surprise.)Both were designed to exploit the hostility, anxiety and resentment of the many white Americans who are still freakishly hung up on the idea of black men rising above their station and becoming sexually involved with white women.

The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover that caused such a stir. (Mr. Obama in Muslim garb with the American flag burning in the fireplace.) It’s driving the idea that Barack Obama is somehow presumptuous, too arrogant, too big for his britches — a man who obviously does not know his place.

Mr. Obama has to endure these grotesque insults with a smile and heroic levels of equanimity. The reason he has to do this — the sole reason — is that he is black."