McWhorter's splendid "Winning the Race"

Read this "arch" review of a new book by "black conservative" John McWhorter (formerly a professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley) apparently concluding that the principal source of disparities between blacks and whites is not (as the left contends) exogenous, such as racism, but its converse -- the debilitating sense of vicitimization exacerbated by the obsession with racism: http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007768

Actually, is not racism in the 21st century more of a problem on the left than on the right? Certainly some of the most blatant racism today is by liberals against black conservatives. See these articles by Jay Nordlinger and Ted Hayes.

1/23 Postscript: to top it off, see this scintillating piece by Shelby Steele, contrasting Hilary's pandering with Condi's archetype, and noting that if "blacks were to take her example and embrace overcoming rather than grievance, the wound to liberalism would be mortal."