Debra Dickerson has lost her mind. I truly feel her experiences as a black woman, and as a black woman desperate for some kind of literary fame or acknowledgment, have made her insane. I feel so bad for her kids. I'm biracial and cannot imagine the headtrips she's imposing on her poor, innocent children. I hope their father comes and rescues them from her. She is beyond self-loathing--she is a receptacle of hate that spews over whenever a paying gig comes calling.

Salon, can't you please find an intelligent, self-aware, talented black woman journalist who writes about all sorts of people, places, and ideas? Is this really too much to ask at this point in American history? Or are you too busy giggling about how Debra's gonna humiliate black people this week? Really base and sad and terrible. And something to stuff one's face over.

There was lots and lots of "good science" to shore up those ideas, too. I think we are moving backward in this country at warp speed. Are studies like these an excuse for white liberals (and although I'm a person of color, I come from a family of said group) to hunker down and let their not-so-repressed racism fly? It would certainly make it a lot easier to make excuses for the growing disparities in this country and everyday acts of cruelty against brown folks. Anyone remember Hitler--or Woodrow Wilson or D.W. Griffiths, et. al.? Does anyone care? Probably not.

Hey, Bernie:

Thanks so much for interpreting "Afro America" for Salon readers. You are truly the godfather of negro speak and thought.

Why does Heather's love of Oprah (hate chat shows but don't care either way about Oprah, Ellen, etc.) evoke Oprah's endorsement of Obama? Talk about playing the race card, "anonymous". It always boggles the mind that blacks and other minorities are accused of playing the race card if they bring up the very real racism that is a part of everyday life in America (re: Michelle Obama's 20-year old thesis, probably inspired by the requisite Franz Fanon reading in some humanities class--many of us wrote these sorts of things, black, white, Asian, etc.). It is truly astounding. I guess blacks are supposed to keep their mouths shut and just take their knocks (or, hopefully, be locked up, therefore providing prison jobs for the family of anonymous and his ilk). Frankly, I wish Obama would drop out of the race so Hillary is forced to actually defend her voting record and the ramifications of the Bill Clinton years (I still think McCain will take the election). I'm so tired of the smear campaign and the not-so-subtle racism of old-guard Democrats. I wish people would admit that it doesn't really matter who wins, black, white, male, female, Democrat or Republican. For better or worse, big biz controls our country and real change is probably not possible. As for universal health care, it seems a great way for corporations to dump health coverage, forcing people to settle for substandard (i.e. "universal") care. And you can't blame Oprah for any of this. But I'm sure you'll bloody well try.

Conason made some very good points about Ferraro's hypocrisy, but readers seem more focused on tearing Obama a new one. Very interesting. To completely ignore the content of Conason's piece is a bit ridiculous (and troubling).

Gerry Ferraro makes Bush seem like a progressive--she most certainly wouldn't have hired Rice or Powell. Finally, to say that black men have it easy is a bit much to swallow, considering incarceration rates, unemployment rates, increasing poverty rates in urban areas, and the debacle that is the public school system. Do we live on the same planet, people? At the end of the day, it's hard not to think that most Salon readers still don't like "uppity niggers," to quote my bigoted (but lovable, of course) Queens-born grandfather (may he rest in peace). Oh, to live in the 1950s, when darkies knew their place and political machines were the order of the day. Ah, you American dreamers.