On CNN.com:

But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don't like angry black men.

Angry black rappers sell millions of CDs. Perhaps a hundred million Americans watch angry black men battle on the basketball court -- and brutalize on the gridiron. That cheering sound you hear after a (usually white) quarterback is sacked isn't millions of white people shrieking in terror.

But wait, that's just the tip of a monstrous iceberg of stupidity bearing down on the unfortunate reader:

During a news conference last summer, Obama casually said that police acted "stupidly" when they arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates in his home for disorderly conduct after a confrontation with a white police officer.

Obama's comments infuriated many white people, and even some black supporters. Obama had to have a Beer Summit to calm the public uproar.

"He flashed genuine anger," says Ambar. "At that moment, when he touched on the issue of race, he spoke frankly and passionately about what he felt and it got him into a big deal of trouble."

But this is CNN, so the stupidity doesn't end with moronic race-baiting. No, we also learn FDR was a great champion of capitalism.

Ambar, from Lehigh University, doesn't think so. Obama doesn't share Roosevelt's elite background, which inoculated him from charges of being anti-American. Roosevelt came from a prominent, and wealthy, American family.

"It's easier to do it if your name is Roosevelt," Ambar says. "No one questions your love of capitalism or your patriotism."

Just as gushing oil lurks below the Gulf's surface, all sorts of ugly, racial undercurrents exist beneath the surface of American politics, Baick says

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I have a dream. My dream is that one day people will learn to judge others on the content of their character instead of endlessly obsessing over race. It's time to stop this ridiculous, destructive racial Balkanization of America. It's time to stand up to those who would divide us along arbitrary lines for their own selfish ends and say "No more."

We're not black or white or Hispanic or Asian -- we're American.