According to today’s column by the email hidden; JavaScript is required">always entertaining Derrick Z. Jackson, Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” outburst
was a double-barreled blast. One was a shout out for white Americans who somewhere in their psyche cannot respect a black president. The other, since it came as Obama said undocumented people would not be covered under his health care proposals, was a political bullet aimed at immigrants south of our borders, who mostly happen to be brown.
Well, according to even race-on-the-brain Jackson, the racism of Obama’s critics at least isn’t at the front of our psyches.
