The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer weighs in:
Smiley has taken the same sort of position that Republicans take on national security issues — Republicans say Obama doesn’t say “terrorism” enough, while Smiley doesn’t think Obama engages in enough direct public advocacy on behalf of black Americans. Smiley doesn’t actually engage on the question of whether or not Obama’s attempts to de-racialize black issues have been successful; he just seems to think that if Obama simply talked about black issues more, problems would get solved.
It seems strange, but it’s Sharpton who supports Obama’s decision to de-emphasize race, while Smiley wants more racial grandstanding. While both men have been justifiably ridiculed for continuing to play the increasingly archaic role of “racial spokesman,” it’s funny to think that over the years Sharpton is the one who has mellowed, while Smiley still seems mired in the identity politics of the mid-1990s.
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