U.S. post racial, you say?

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From my upcoming column in the St. Louis American:

The Cliven Bundys and Donald Sterlings of the world also keep us grounded in the reality of whether or not America is in a post-racial period. While they represent very different economic strata, their opinions about blacks are not that far apart. Bundy has been leeching off the government for 20 years in unpaid grazing fees. His statements about negroes “being better off as slaves” fit right in with Sterling’s plantation notion of taking care of his black basketball Clippers.  “I…give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses.”

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