Leonard Pitts: Obama is Black

Leonard Pitts' column today is both smart and hilarious.

I'd like to add to this that I interviewed some 18 year olds in the suburbs near Portland last week, and one asked if it is illegal for a black man to become president. The others, none of whom had heard of Obama, said if a black man ever became president, he'd be shot.

For all its getting-off-the-hook about it, the Northwest has some serious race conversations to have.