You know, it is an appalling indictment of our society that a public figure can still look at the first black President of the United States of America and see only a basketball star. When Eugene Robinson observes the intellectual dexterity of an Ivy-League educated intellectual and sees only a "reverse 360-degree windmill tomahawk jam." When he has the nerve-or, should I say, audacity?- to equate the leader of the free world on national TV to a stereotypically imposing felon with a prison girlfriend, while an approving host laughs along. And, why? All because Barack Obama is black? Are we so steeped, as a people, in our country's institutional, inherent (and, let's throw in imperial for good measure, because it's an America-bashing word that starts with "i"), and imperial racism that we cannot see the man beyond his skin color? That we must weigh down this lofty leader with the hegemonic chains of our historic shame, just when he's trying to soar? I am so outrageously outraged by this man's comments, but not just this man's comments. I am outraged for our country, and its sad bequeathal to a man who not only inherited Bush's deficit, but our ignorance. I weep along with Obama and our better angels, as they try-perhaps in vain- to lift us from the sexist, patriarchal muck of American oppressi...wait, what? Oh, Eugene Robinson's a liberal? Dude, why didn't you tell me? Outrage canceled. Everything's cool. Move along with the hope and change: