I hate to break the news to you Colbert, but Coates hates you too, because you are White.
And smarmy to boot.
Colbert doesn’t understand the fact that “Racism” is what empowers people like Coates. If Colbert got his wish — a post-racial utopia — then Coates would have to find another gig.
Blacks in the US are not a growing population that will eventually dominate politically; welfare reform has stabilized their birthrate while Hispanics and Asians pour in unabated. Hispanics were projected to pass blacks in number by 2010, but after the 2000 census the government admitted that had already happened.
Blacks’ problems are not with the disappearing white population; they are with what is replacing us. Ask Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Eric Garner...