If we are limited to an endless debate over whether tea partiers have racist hearts, then we miss the bigger question of whether they seek to build a racist society.

President Obama was "getting it in" last night on Letterman.  After a verbose question from Letterman about former Prez Jimmy Carter's allegations about a racist America, Obama told Letterman that he was, in fact, a black man before the 2008 election.

What Jimmy Carter and a pivotal scene from “Rosewood” have to say about President Obama and America’s increasingly hostile race relations.