If, as some social scientists have been telling us, 88 percent of whites have an “implicit bias†against blacks and in favor of whites, and if, according to exit polls, whites made up 74 percent of the voters on Tuesday, why is Barack Obama going to be the next president?
I’m afraid I can’t make that math work out, so I’ve got another question: Was this election a landslide defeat for the researchers labeling most Americans as “unconscious†racists?
Yes, but that won’t go away so long as there’s a political market for it. Besides, there are still some people screaming the N-word — they’re just not in Mississippi . . . .