I've been sick with the flu since last night and barely keeping up with anything. But in one of my (rare) lucid moments today I came across this post by "Lower Manhattanite" on The Group News Blog, a site that continues in the spirit of Steve Gilliard's News Blog.

I'm white (and Jewish). Too often we whites assume that everyone else is like us, and I suspect, this unconscious impulse is even more prevalent online, since you usually can't tell a person's race or ethnicity simply from reading a blog post by them. (That's why we did a panel at last year's PdF conference entitled, "Is cyberspace colorblind?") If you're white, I think LM's post, which he titled "Pride and Palpitations," will make you understand just how historic Barack Obama's Iowa caucus victory was last night--and how much race and violence still weigh on our country like a curse. Let us hope that those times are behind us.

It's long, but read the whole thing.