Racism Is Not the Problem

National Journal Magazine reports:

Voters: Racism Is Not the Problem
Wright aside, if Obama's race were a net liability with voters, he would have had no chance of winning the nomination.

Is Barack Obama--now closer than ever to winning the Democratic nomination--nonetheless at a political disadvantage because of white racism, or "racial fears," or "race-baiting," or racial "double standards," as some commentators have suggested?

The evidence indicates otherwise, as it pertains both to this election and more broadly to the perennial tendency of many in the racial-grievance groups, the media, and academia to exaggerate how much white racism remains and its impact on African-Americans.

But many of the voters who have been unfairly tarred as racist do have a different flaw that Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain are working especially hard to exploit: ignorance of elementary economics and other things every high school graduate should know, which accounts for the low quality of the debate on issues ranging from the gas tax to trade to the budget.

More on voter ignorance later. First, let's examine the notion that white racism, or efforts to fan it, underlie Obama's recent difficulties in winning over middle-class white voters.

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