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At the Heart of White Resentment

By Jonathan Simor

"So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town, when theyhear that an African-American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed, when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time."Senator Barack Obama, March 18, 2008, Philadelphia (read the entire speech in today's NYTimes )Like a specialist who combines brain surgery with psychoanalysis, Dr. Barack Obama reached into the souls of white folks yesterday in Philadelphia and displayed, as if in anatomy lab, ugly and wiggling, still very much alive, the viscera of white anger about race in America. And at the very heart of that tangle was fear about crime in urban neighborhoods...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).