Leaving aside the stereotype promoted by “oreo” (black on the oustide, white on the inside) does injustice to conservative African-American columnists. Thomas Sowell is articulate and Walter Williams even more so. Williams, as I recall, lives in the general commute of Philadelphia, yet the Inquirer never ever acknowledged his existence in the 30 years I was involved with the paper. If I could be a black columnist, I think I would go by the pen-name, “Malcolm Why”

The “blackness” referred to in my metaphor is the blackness of reaction, not of skin.