The only thing I can disagree with in that is "part" of the problem. It IS the problem; this is the unwanted child of divisive politics, decades of using race as leverage; the protests of "racist!" at every early criticism is more than an annoying toss back, but repeated again and again in the background dialogue, people on both sides begin to believe it.
When trouble comes, people instinctively look to their leaders, few presidents lose elections in war time, George W. Bush score better numbers than Reagan in the post 911 days with words.
But the leadership, both parties, have been creating division. Where other jurisdictions have "wedge issues" like oil pipelines, the politique nationale has become a war zone of created chasms. And the current adminstration, void of vision, ability and common sense has perfected the weapon into a battering ram, no issue can escape the void.
What alarmed me then was when Obama weighed into the Trayvor Martin thing, becoming the first president in history to smash the protocol of presidents not commenting on the outcomes of trials. But he went even further, commenting on the finding of a jury of his peers. So the president has little or no faith in the system, there cannot not be a relationship to the people of Ferguson who also don't have any faith in the finding of a jury.
As with the outcome of the mid terms, this is an extension of the distrust of the voter, fed up with the bull**** instead of real solutions, a mob expressing its anger at everything, the killing of a black kid by a white cop being to the Watts riots what was Rodney King, a flash point igniting decades of dry tinder.
In my world, the "only to blacks" thing alone would have disqualified her from office...but really, she is doing what works. The divide has been there and getting wider, she is simply one more trying to exploit it. Me? I would camp out in front of here office demanding to know why white people are so undervalued to her and what that means in terms of representing me with two colored kids...bitch.
