Well, that is unexpected

Jon Meacham writes something non-douchesque about the Virginia governor and his 'Confederacy Day' and also about the link between the Black President and White idiots with inferiority complexes:

We cannot allow the story of the emancipation of a people and the expiation of America’s original sin to become fodder for conservative politicians playing to their right-wing base. That, to say the very least, is a jump backward we do not need.