"Depressing Because It Is So Persuasive" Ctd

by Chris Bodenner

Thomas Sugrue, guesting over at TNC's place, complements the Dish reader discussion by putting heat on Obama:

Sincethe '70s, support for integration, except rhetorically, has plummeted.Many black parents were (and are) rightly skeptical of the rhetoric ofsome integrationists--namely that mere exposure to whites would somehowmagically uplift their children. And most whites tell pollsters andsurvey researchers that they support racial integration, until morethan a handful of...