He didn’t help change the notion that white men can’t dance during his oh-so-short appearance on Dancing with the Stars, now HuffPost’s Heather Wood is taking Tucker Carlson to task for his show’s guest selection. Wood asks: “when the producers of MSNBC’s Tucker program decided to air a segment on “blackness” this week – specifically the degree and quality of presidential candidate Barack Obama’s blackness – did they not pause, even for a second, to realize the panel they had assembled was completely white?”
Wood turns it back on herself, writing: “I may very well be worthy of my own ridicule as I am yet another white person entering this discussion.” But, she goes on, (my husband is African-American, so by the nature of my family, I am acutely aware of how racism permeates every facet of modern life.)