One of those things one learns over time, I guess
"It's all about gratitude. White people are just thrilled when a prominent black person comes along and doesn't rub their noses in racial guilt. White people just go crazy over people like that. [...] "He's working a very dangerous high-wire act. He's got to keep on pleasing white folks without offending black folks, and vice versa."
| A Shelby Steele quote (via The East African) on Barack Obama in "The Fresh Face," by Joe Klein (yes, that Joe Klein) last week.
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