Dear Bob McDonnell

So Bob McDonnell stepped into it big time the other day by proclaiming April Confederate History Month.  Then a few people noted that in the whole proclamation there wasn’t a single mention of, you know, slavery.  So he amended it.  And bluntly it still sucks, thought it’s a little improved.  So I decided to write the governor, and this is what I sent.

Dear Governor McDonnell,

The Jackie Robinson Theory of the Obama Presidency

Ever since Obama has become president there has been a hyperracialization of every issue of mere politics.  The climax came for me when I went to the Tea Party protest down at the Capital.  I’ll post more on it later, but when I got home I started hearing claims of some kind of racial incident.  You can recognize intellectually that politicians are liars, but to hear them lying about you is another matter, a real baptism.  And it made me try to understand where this was all coming from.

Now some of it is pure hucksterism.  There is no two ways about it.

But there is also an honest, albeit mistaken, belief that this is a racial issue.  And I think I figured out why so many liberals have been seeing it that way.  I call it the Jackie Robinson Theory of the Obama presidency.