Someone tell the media: We are a racist country. Now let's fix it.

Since Obama asked the country to have an adult conversation on race, some people feel free to start commenting on race, when they're clearly not ready for an adult conversation.

Glenn Greenwald has a long post on it, which is definitely worth reading. The main point:

While the dominant political faction in the United States built itself and continues to feed and nourish itself with this sort of endless exploitation of racial resentments and grievances -- and while it openly embraces far more powerful religious fanatics who espouse ideas at least as radical and repugnant as anything Jeremiah Wright has ever said -- let's spend the next eight months talking about the controversial comments of a single, comparatively powerless black preacher and have our presidential election decided by that.

Cat's outta the bag. We are a racist country. Now the media needs to get in and shame all those that would write stuff like this (not safe for the easily offended), so that we can both take the crazy, outwardly racist section of the right out of power in this country, and begin to actually have that adult conversation in order to purge the more subtle racism too.