About two months ago, a prominent African American columnist wrote that since the Obamas moved into the White House, he has more or less stopped reading the online comments he gets from his newspaper readers. This, he explained, was because so many of these comments were not about whatever he may have written about current affairs in the US. Rather there was a steady stream of vile insults directed, not at him, but at Mr and Mrs Obama. His point then was that there are some white Americans whose intrinsic racism makes it impossible for them to reconcile themselves to the fact that there is a...
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