Truth to Power

Comedians have an incredible license and an incredible power to tell the truth, and it is nice to see someone actually avail themselves of it. The more I think about it, the more Chris Rock is right on Reverend Wright:

"A 75-year-old black man who hates white people. Is there another type of 75-year-old black man? Do you realize his whole third grade class was lynched?"

It is depressing to think that we might not be able to have a black president until everyone who actually remembers the civil rights era is dead, and all we are left with the the whitewashed vision of American Progress.