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From the post-racial Nirvana of the United Kingdom, where there are no racial troubles at all. None. Not a bit of it. Really.

From Times Online
February 28, 2008
Obama victory will prolong US racial divide, says British equality chief Trevor Phillips
by Hannah Strange

One of Britain?s most influential black figures today accused Barack Obama of cynically exploiting America?s racial divide and gave warning that he could prolong, rather than heal the rift.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, claimed that the Democratic front-runner would ultimately disappoint the African-American community and dismissed the notion that he would be "the harbinger of a post-racial America" if he becomes the country?s first black President.

Writing in Prospect, the monthly current affairs magazine, Mr Phillips suggested that guilt over transatlantic slavery was behind Mr Obama?s support from middle class whites.

"If Obama can succeed, then maybe they can imagine that [Martin Luther] King's post-racial nirvana has arrived. A vote for Obama is a pain-free negation of their own racism. So long as they don't have to live next door to him; Obama has yet to win convincingly in white districts adjacent to black communities," he wrote.

Unless somebody kills him first. On the other hand, imagine what race relations in this country will be like if he loses. The Times report lives here.

Full post as published by West Neanderthal Drive on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).