The Left's Complicity in the Sherrod Debacle and Misunderstanding of Racism

"Liberal silence on race is what allows Breitbart to distort the definition of racism, to strip it of all discussions of power, history, policy or collective responsibility such that the notion of reverse racism has enough merit to be taken seriously in the first place..."

"The left understands class, so why not race? When was the last time we heard progressives call for projects that heal the class divide? No, on class we get it."

--Rinku Sen, executive director of the Applied Research Center

"Put bluntly, this is a country too ignorant of itself to grapple with race in any serious way. The very nomenclature--"conversation on race"--betrays the unseriousness of the thing by communicating the sense that race can be boxed from the broader American narrative."

--Ta Nehisi Coates, senior editor at the Atlantic