1.0link95898<![CDATA[Does Obama Transcend Race?]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caryl-rivers/does-obama-transcend-race_b_95898.htmlEarly on in the presidential primaries, it seemed that Barack Obama had managed to do the improbable, if not the impossible -- transcend the thorny question of race in American politics. I had hoped this situation would continue.
It was not, alas, to be. The whole issue of Reverend Jeremiah Wright reared its head, once again bringing race to the forefront of the Obama candidacy.
I had wondered what stereotypes about Black men would bubble to the surface on the...