Sometime during the 2008 presidential campaign, I was a guest on a program broadcast by a historically black college’s radio station. We were talking about the lively contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

We went to the phones. Most of the callers’ questions were in line with my expectations, but one threw me for a loop. Why, I was asked, wasn’t the media talking about Hillary Clinton’s belief that the Bible teaches white supremacy?