Legal Commentary

Obama: Today, Rorshach Inkblot; Tomorrow, ?

Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom ask a series of penetrating questions whose answers will determine whether President Obama will work to heal our racial divide ... or exacerbate it.

Sen. Obama?s words were very pretty Thursday ? and reassuring. But if believes, as most African Americans do, that American society today is fundamentally warped by racism, he will appoint judges committed to race-conscious policies and propose a host of radical policies designed to promote ?racial justice.? Is endemic racism, in fact, the lens through which he views ?the greatest country?? Today, he?s a Rorschach inkblot; tomorrow, that inkblot may turn into a message ? not so pretty and not so reassuring. To blacks or to whites, or perhaps to both.

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 29, 2008 (boomark / email).