The Cory Booker Problem | TIME.com
Posted on August 22, 2013
Link → http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/16/the-cory-booker-problem/?xid=rss-topstoriesOn that, another problem of Booker’s begins with B— Barack.There was a time when the sheer fact of Obama’s blackness had more than a few harboring expectations beyond logic. “Yes, we can!” he intoned, and everybody went crazy — but more because of the skin color of who said it than anything else. Obama sounded like a preacher, and thus a prophet. He was going to get us beyond the partisan divide because, well, he’s wise, or … has been through the fire … or, well, O.K., is black.
