Shorter John "Talking Android" McWhorter on why he doesn't like Juneteeth:

Given my longstanding inability to empathize with the bulk of black people, I find myself unmoved by Juneteenth's tedious rememberances of olde tyme negroe sharecroppers. I would prefer to focus on the more recent roots of my privilege and disavowal.

I don't have the time this morning to get into exactly why McWhorter is such a predictable hack so we'll just have to settle for the shorter ebog/gary dauphin:

Go fuck yourself, John.

[h/t non-blog having Naunihal for the link!]

Apologies for the Hamsherite sourcing on that clip, but it was too good not to share.

Asked why she's staying in the race, Hillary Clinton today evoked, of all things, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Talking Points Memo has video of the offending comment and of the non-apology.

I had to go over to the otherwise odious FOX News to learn that Clinton made much the same point on May 7th, but the story didn't catch on until she repeated it today and the reference was picked up by the Drudge Report. Clinton's subsequent non-apology (no reference to Obama or even why the comment might be offensive) and the Drudge sourcing indicates to me that her camp has processed this issue Jane Hamsher-style, meaning they view it as nothing more than "ginned up controversy" (to use Hamsher's words after the Blackface Joe incident) created by manifold enemies in order to "further distract from the issues important to the voters"Clintons. In this view of events, instead of legitimate concern over Clinton's word-choice, we have black folks, with our dumbness and our annoying hypersensitivity and tendency to keep losing leaders to gunfire, being played for cynical, strategic advantage.

As November draws near, expect the number of times someone - be they GOP and Democratic partisan - refers to, references or depicts people pointing guns at Obama, or lynching, or sexually torturing Michelle Obama to only go up. Exponentially.

When the right wing does it, it will be a media outrage, and when someone on the left does it, it will be just an "ooopsie!" that the right is trying to exploit, so shut your black mouth if you know what's good for you. That each of these episodes will feature white folks fantasizing about the physical mortification of the Obamas, and that racism is the one thing that often unites white folks across the political spectrum, will not be discussed.