Racefail

The fact is that there was no violent distrust between blacks and whites in the 20th century. Rather there was a one-sided war waged against black people by white terrorists, which government, in the best cases, failed to prevent, in many cases, stood idly by, and in the worst cases actually aided and abetted. I'm sorry but comparing that to whatever's happening between blacks and Latinos, is a slander against both those groups, and an amazingly naive take on the history of white America in regards to race.

Go read this whole post by Ta-Nehisi, in which he takes down an article in Time that he quite politely calls "an unfortunate and deeply problematic article on Sotamayor's effect on the relationship between blacks and Latinos."