Blacks Are Getting Happier

摘要

It's been an uglytime in race relations lately. Radio host Laura Schlessinger used the N word 11 times in five minutes; Shirley Sherrod, a black woman who preached redemp-tion, was accused of hating whites; and professional provocateur Glenn Beck described himself and his fans as the real "inheritors and protectors of the civil-rights movement." Not like those, um, say, African-Americans who were denied actual rights? Last year he claimed President Obama secretly hated white people, fueling an anxiety about hidden agendas that is as palpable as it is irrational.