Herman Cain vs Adolph Reed Jr.

Adolph Reed Jr. is one of my favorite thinkers on race and class, maybe because he validated my more ignorant opinions on modern anti-racism and Hurricane Katrina. (And if that's proof I suffer from confirmation bias, well, who doesn't?)

But I was disappointed with The Puzzle of Black Republicans - NYTimes.com. I'd love to know if the Times encouraged him to downplay the class-based analysis I expect from him, of if he was simply focusing on a very narrow subject, so he wrote something t...