Benjamin Jealous Again

by Dave Weigel

Ta-Nahesi Coates pushes back on my "NAACP tea party resolution backfires" theory:

To the extent that the NAACP has, as Dave says, "failed," it isbecause the arbiters of facts have ceded ground, and reporters andwriters dutifully, and uncritically, dispense the notion thatan organization which helped birth modern America has "a long historyof...racism." But it also fails because there is very little pushbackon this notion from "sensible" liberal writers. (I don't include...