A Meditation on Racism

i’ve realized in listening to people’s reaction to the flap oprah winfrey kicked up over getting locked out of a hermes store just how big of a job we progressives have in front of us. winfrey charges that hermes (or at least, their staff on the spot at that store) are racist because they wouldn’t let her in to shop after normal business hours. a friend of winfrey, who was recently named the most powerful celebrity in the us by forbes magazine, tells the new york daily news, “if it had been celine dion or Britney Spears or barbra streisand, there is no way they would not be let in that store.” winfrey’s spokeswoman rather dramatically refers to the incident as oprah’s “‘crash’ moment.” harpo productions spokeswoman...