A lively piece in the Guardian by Bonnie Greer about the all-pervasiveness of Racism.

She lays into one and all, but especially her fellow leftists:

I cringed during the campaign at the drooling of male broadcasters over the candidate’s physique; the "cool black guy" envy many of them subliminally expressed in their words and their writing which risked reducing Obama to some kind of fantasy. There still are those lachrymose liberals who can’t stop welling up every time they see a black face in their vicinity.

And there is the syndrome, whose name is even now being invented by psychologists, for those white people who feel that they can say things to black people that they would not have done before, simply because they stepped up to the plate and voted for Obama. Racism cuts both ways.

Obama’s campaign slogan was "Change". We on the left need to change. Change our tired, ideologically driven responses to events. Change our moth-eaten rhetoric.

Luckily a website exists for such white people who are delighted to be seen as awesome by the Black community. And do they deserve that praise!

In our moments of most profound anxiety about racial questions, we always have one person to lead us to the truth: the Numinous Negro.

Me? I go along with this.