Gregory Kane: Talking about race is a roll of the dice

Published January 14, 2010 5:00am ET



You didn’t even have to be a psychic to predict this one: No sooner had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racist remark been revealed than other wacky comments about race followed.

Perhaps the most egregious comes from author and college professor Michael Eric Dyson, who took umbrage not with Reid — who I’m calling “Mr. Brown Bag” these days (explanation to follow) — but with President Obama. Our president doesn’t talk about race enough to Dyson’s liking, you see. Or, as Dyson put it far more tendentiously than I ever could:

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