These days it seems the best way for many white folks to actually hear anything about race is to have it come from the mouth (or pen) of another white person.
Ten years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and syndicated
Miami Herald columnnist Leonard Pitts nailed this form of racially-induced diminished capacity in his essay,
Crazy Sometimes, in
WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories.
Bob Cesca performed this service more recently in what I call a
White-on-White-Each-One-Teach-One Moment (WoW-EOTOM).
In
Tea Party Is All About Race, Cesca took a woman's anti-Obama indictment and used her own frame of reference to show what she was saying made no sense. Or it didn't until Cesca showed it through a race lens.
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