Listening to my African American church going colleagues talk at work about the speech this week, I came to appreciate what Tavis is saying above. Which, in a nutshell, is "thanks for throwing Wright under the bus, in order to reassure your white liberal money base."

They are all still planning to vote for him in November if he is on the ballot, mind you. But these folks seemed a lot less enamored of Obama this week. Because, to be frank, they got to say "he didn't throw his white grandma under the bus". It's that loyalty to the race thing, and Wrightgate has ripped open a wound he couldn't really afford to: the whole racially pure "not black enough" issue that has followed him throughout his political climbing.