I wonder if Obama will part the Red Sea next?

Bill de Blasio is a politician who won the Democratic primaries on September 29 and will probably be the next city advocate for New York City. Like other politicians he has a family portrait in his mailings and telivision adds. This is nothing unusual but what is unusual is his wife is black and his children are of mixed race.

Peggy Pascoe, a historian of Interracial marriages at the University of Oregon, credits this to Barack ObamaBarack Obama. Ben Smith writing for Politico is almost breathless with his support with the line "With Barack Obama having rewritten the history of race relations in this country."

Rewritten the history of race relations? Gag me. Who else would throw their grandmother under the bus as a "typical white person" or prejudge a case he knew nothing about as racial profiling or stay in the church of a preacher like Jeremiah WrightJeremiah Wright for twenty years? A post-racial era? Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh is being blocked from owning a football team and the racism charge is being used ad-neuseum by liberals now. Black Americans were almost monolithic in voting for Obama during the primaries and John Hawkins reported on a poll that Obama had a fifty point difference in approval rating between Black and White respondants. Is it really credible that all those black respondants are somehow so much more "enlightened" then their counterparts?

Smith later calls interraciasl marriage "the last taboo." That would come as a shock to Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfield who calculated that 7% of the 59 million married couples were interracial in 2005. This may not seem like a lot but it is a large leap from 2% in 1970. Also missing from the story are those like Dianne Watson who attacked Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas for marrying a white woman. Michelle MalkinMichelle Malkin provides a list of links here.

I wonder if Obama will part the Red Sea mext?