Posts by David Dante Troutt

Just before the New Yorker cover came out depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as black power/Muslim terrorists, I was telling someone how useless the term “elitist” was. It was one of several pejorative labels tossed at Obama, and it was pure epithet disguised as a descriptor. But of what? It describes nothing. It only rankles. [...]

Sen. Barack Obama’s emphatic denunciation of his former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., for a series of comments the reverend made during a sort of media tour last week involves far more than politics. Wright had reveled in a bewildering litany of racial differences and repeated his most charged political beliefs. He had characterized this [...]

Until his pastor’s most incendiary sound bites re-circulated on the web, Sen. Barack Obama had managed to be the “post-racial,” “post-partisan” candidate to all America — an unimposing black buddy some white men never had, an attraction to women across racial and ethnic lines. But Rev. Jeremiah A Wright Jr.’s selected sermons suddenly threatened all [...]