[mukto-mona] Long road ahead for Bam, race

Long road ahead for Bam, race

-ELLIS HENICAN,

amNY.com 04.04.08

 

The air is heavy this morning with talk of Martin Luther King. His speeches, his legacy, his dream — and a whole bunch of upbeat assessments about the distance we have traveled racially. Exhibit no. 1: Barack Obama. Didn't he shoot to the top of the Democratic field by attracting supporters on both sides of the old racial divide? But still. Overt racial discrimination has grown less common in the past 40 years.

 

But it's too soon to declare a postracial society. Take the orchestrated uproar over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery, even offensive, remarks. Obama took a hit in the polls, but is bouncing back. But weren't tough Republican operatives watching? Won't they return even more viciously in the fall? These are the people who swift-boated John Kerry, the people who understand that race may be absent from the American conversation, but it is never long absent from the American mind. How do I know this? I know it because every day I open my e-mail in-box to another load of lies —about Obama's supposed hatred of America, about his supposed refusal to salute the flag, about the supposed madrassa he attended as a boy.

 

King had a dream. We all have dreams.

 

I dream that one day all this really will be ancient history. But I'm not holding my breath.

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