As for your backpeddling on those racial sterotypes...nice save Doc!

You're exactly right. I am a racist who really believes all of that. I voted for Obama because I am a racist. I teach courses on slavery in America and the Atlantic world because I am a racist. I worked on PBS's "Africans in America" series because I am a racist. I did consulting work with the Program in African American Culture at the Smithsonian because I am a racist.

Congratulations. I've managed to hide my secret racism from all the professionals I have worked with through the years, but you have sussed out my true racist feelings on an internet message board.

Head. Wall. Repeat.

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." --- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 9 January 1940