Obama Owes It All To Liberal College Professors

Maybe some of it anyway. This is my case. What the right claims about liberal professors is true. Liberal college professors view the United States as a racist society, discuss race and racism a great deal in their classes, analyze materials on racial stereotyping, and assign a considerable amount of work by African-American writers. not named Shelby Steele.

My claim is that a couple of decades of this kind of education about race has had its effect. The white college students and graduates who took all of these classes are now more aware of the various forms of white racial hostility, more offended by racial stereotyping, and more interested in African-American ideas. As a result, whites with college experience were not only more open to Obama's candidacy than they would have been otherwise, they were also put off by all the racial innuendo that came out of the McCain camp.

Obviously, Obama was a compelling candidate whose campaign was extremely well-planned and organized. But liberal professors can be seen as helping to prepare the way for Obama's success.