Dark Horses Ride Best

“White folks think that dark horses ride best.” This is what an African American historian colleague once told me was his reason for maintaining a cool and calculated emotional distance from his undergrad and graduate students at the various elite institutions he’s taught over the years in his distinguished career. On a recent Sunday, those words echoed in my mind as I watched the various sections of the American punditocracy expound upon President Obama’s insufficient emotive performance….

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