Shirley Sherrod succeeds Obama as media's post-racial saint

As anybody who has watched the firestorm of news surrounding Shirley Sherrod knows, the media have found a new post-racial saint. With each reporter as eager as the last to fawn all over Sherrod, it’s become a circus.

The concocted narrative is as follows: Sherrod was unfairly taken out of context while trying to spread an inspiring story of getting past her own racial bias in order to help a white man keep his farm. According to the propagandists (aka, “reporters”), Sherrod is an over-comer and has been redeemed. According to those same propagandists, Sherrod is the kind of person who should be guiding our national conversation on race.

While Sherrod is the new kid on the block, she isn’t the media’s first post-racial saint. That title was first bestowed upon Barack Obama.

Remember back to 2004? The media was quick to fawn over Obama’s assertion that he believed there was not a “white America” nor a “black America” but only the “United States of America.” They hailed his rise to power as the beginning of a new post-racial age. They told us the racial politics of the past were dead.

They were wrong. Not only has Obama’s regime not heralded a post-racial political environment, but Obama, either personally or through administration officials, has repeatedly and, er, “stupidly” used the race card as a cudgel to divide us. He and his allies, most recently the NAACP, have created one of the most racially divisive atmospheres in decades.