The Rev Wright Redux

John McCain is objecting to an ad prepared by the North Carolina GOP that skewers Sen. Obama for his association to the Rev. Wright. Sen. McCain thinks the ad is too polarizing.

This begins a slightly new chapter in the history of American race relations. We justified slavery and Jim Crow with the idea that blacks were ignorant and possibly dangerous. Now we are worried that, if given political power, they may exact revenge on whitey. So it goes....